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as an ex-technician, I'd have to agree. With the caveat that they should choose how they want to fix your shit.

any requirement to log in is done with malicious intent.

what other purpose could it hold other than to harvest your data for their own undisclosed purposes?

Maybe anti-bots or something, but there are other ways to do that. Besides, a bot might just make an account.

Ya'll, this is just the Fediverse. Check it out.

... I am mostly curious why anyone would bother watching/subscribing to this media, since the amount of information you gain from them is enough to influence you emotionally, but not enough information to gain you a market advantage.

That's the point. They want their audience to be confused. They want them to act on instinct, to spend funds as they choose. It's not about value, it's not about growth - it's about power, first and foremost.

The purpose of smart locks such as these is never convenience. It's not even to make money.

The purpose is to deprive you of the resource they control should you say something they disagree with.

In fact, this applies to all smart devices, and IoT gadgets - to spy on you, and to control you if you step out of line.

"Oh I'm sorry your dishwasher won't start, should have thought of how much you valued having clean dishes before you started speaking out against the regime"

Obviously, that doesn't happen right now. But if the infrastructure is in place, all it'd take is a software patch and suddenly we get a dystopia that nobody could see coming and everyone reached for with arms outstretched.

they don't want you to be able to communicate with your teammates without their knowledge

Hi, asking for help is hard but I'm used to it at this point.

I'm looking for a job, if you know someone who's "always hiring" for remote positions please let me know. I have a year's worth of experience as a laboratory technician working on Intel IA platform systems, and most of a computer science BS degree. I have a few certifications, and I've made a few projects that almost work. I'm a little schizophrenic, but as long as I can take a day off if my symptoms flare up it shouldn't get in the way.

At my previous job I've given trainings, assembled documentation, resolved tickets, drafted emails, worked with spreadsheets, assembled complicated computers, installed operating systems, worked independently on a special debug task for a project that had been abandoned for a year or two, wrote bash scripts, flashed firmware, updated inventory, gathered a team for a task, debugged networking, learned soldering (once, oops), and probably some more stuff I'm forgetting.

It was a great job but I couldn't stay because traveling tends to trigger my symptoms - sometimes I'd get to work and realize I'd have to turn around. I was kind of embarrassed so I told my friends there that I was quitting for "health reasons" and nobody asked what I meant so...

I tried to apply to jobs but I wasn't getting many responses. You know how it goes. I like programming and make a hobby of game design, among other non-tech things. I have a cute cat and I wear a hat when I go outside. If I sound like a cool person to work with let me know and we can network!

on Facebook or Reddit, you suddenly read a comment written by a veterinarian in Azerbaijan – someone who you would almost certainly never have met in real life and who is more different from you in every way than all the people you interact with as part of your daily routine.

that veterinarian may be more different than the people you see in everyday life, but the point of a social media bubble is that the veterinarian and you are likely to be very similar. Otherwise, why would you be on the same subreddit? How would you have met them on the internet if not because you were interested in common topics?

...The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum.

until, of course, someone updates a library that your code depends on or the OS changes the way it executes code or some other arbitrary change happens and your code is broken forever.

I don't understand that graph. Why is it so spiky? for any particular year. It almost looks like the temperature varies by ~0.5 degrees week to week. Can someone explain it to me?

The difference is at a university you have to learn ~5 different subjects at once. On the job you only learn one. It's more of a "Breadth first" approach.

Right... the story is called "Robots and Murder" because people still use robots to commit murder. The point is that broad overarching rules like that can always be subverted.

This is totally wrong - people are much different in 2023 compared to earlier in our lifetimes, even people from 1990 would seem completely different to us now. Cultural evolution is a type of evolution, it's not a "fake" version or something like that.

Unfortunately people often don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive. Why would that change if you added more things to the doctor's toolbox?

The more you have to pay for it, the fewer people have access to "on-demand everything". Meaning it'll become a luxury of the richer side of the arbitrary cut-off line where ordering groceries or getting an Uber is financially feasible. The less these services cost, the better for all of us.

The solution that solves that problem is to remove the infrastructure from the capitalist market - for example, by nationalizing UberEats or Amazon (although nationalization isn't the only option)

Doing so would allow the business to continue as usual but the expenses that are external to each transaction would be offloaded to a third party (the government for example, or just written off) thus allowing the maximum amount of people to access the service at the lowest price.

The transaction is fundamentally between a human client and a corporation. With an AI shopkeeper or with a human, it doesn't matter - you don't steal from the till attendants, you steal from the corporation.

There should be forums or something where people can contribute to discussions and create a community. How are they supposed to vote for representatives if there's no way to know who other people are?

The goal of programming as a discipline is to create tools that allow problems to be solved. Art is a problem - how do I express myself to others? The entire industry is designed for moments like this.

It could also be caused by authors getting better at expressing themselves succinctly.

Robert Evans (the author) has done a lot of important reporting in the middle east. I first heard about him through a friend who recommended his podcast "It Could Happen Here", and I loved his reporting on the BLM protests in Portland. Very interesting stuff.

This isn't true. Yes, it's only checked locally, but you can store the key-code used and if you connect to another player with the same keycode it can prevent you from playing together. This is something many companies did to their games. But many others didn't, and they were treasured for LAN parties.

It'd also be nice if companies were forced to pay for time spent commuting

You're confusing the impact of the decision with the prevalence of belief in it. While that may objectively be the best way to combat climate change, it doesn't imply anything about how many people are making that decision for that reason.

The author completely missed the part where Lain became a god... Or how she erased herself from time and space because she could no longer relate to her friends and family. It reminds me more of Welcome to the NHK than Evangelion, honestly.

Generally, people want to do less work so they can spend more time focused on their own dreams and aspirations.

Privileged people also tend to conceptualize theft as "theft from a corporation" as in, stealing clothes from Target or slim jims from a gas station.

The idea that their entire livelihood could be taken from them doesn't cross their mind

And yet, in our system that prioritizes efficiency, we have more slavery than at any point in human history. Something doesn't add up.

"Private tutors" can be anything from an after-school karate class to visiting a piano teacher's house for an hour of instruction. It doesn't have to be solely for elite people.

It also encourages slavery. Who sows your clothes? Who assembles your phone? Who picks the vegetables you eat? Really it's all the same person: The cheapest option.

Also it doesn't imply it'll use the least amount of resources, it implies it'll use the least amount of _money_, which means the cost will be exported to countries that can't afford to say no... Are we really surprised at the amount of slave labor in the world?