Do you genuinely think the folks who “gambled” really understood the implications? How many random mailers have you gotten asking to switch to a random third party provider because “it’s better for the env” or will “save money”?

I mean I’ll grant you California is a shitshow but it’s been a shitshow since republicans got on their knees for Enron in the 90s and literally hasn’t recovered. How about Florida, which has been a red state for 80% of the last 30 years, low regulation, but instead of building new power they are keeping nukes going well past their service life? Abundant sun. Abundant wave power. They have the fucking entire European heating system right off the coast.

Your measure of corruption is what now? How many new things are built regardless of their need or what impacts they may have?

Very…unique standpoint.

I think they mean “the same forces that led to the grid collapsing every few years – prioritizing profit above all else, and the government giving zero fucks-- are the same forces which trigger new development to be in renewables with zero regulation or oversight”

Conservatives always write about their broken-clock-right-twice successes in a similar way.

Not everything has to be this. Please stop.

Didn’t know it happened other than lemmy

I suppose that’s all true, I’d say more “following apples lead on locking things down” than over engineered, but 🍅🍅.

I find myself avoiding the whole root business, I do want my mobile device to be fairly locked down. But I also use alternative OSs and app stores to avoid 90% of the garbage (stuff I can’t avoid I put in work profile, like I still need google maps).

It works for me, but on the front of this complexity driving away devs I don’t really see a viable alternative. Base Linux isn’t secure enough for what we put on these little computers. I mean you’ve still got tons of influential people arguing you shouldn’t use secureboot or a tpm as if leaving your whole computer unsecured is better than the indignity of using a non-free bios.

I don’t know the point of the first paragraph…scams are bad? Yes? Does anyone not agree? (I guess scammers)

For the second we are talking in the wild abstract, so I feel comfortable pointing out that every automated system humanity has come up with so far has pulled in our own biases and since ai models are trained by us, this should be no different. Second, if the models are fallible, you cannot talk about success without talking false positives. I don’t care if it blocks every scammer out there if it also blocks a message from my doctor. Until we have data on consensus between these new algorithms and desired outcomes, it’s pointless to claim they are better at X.

Oscar wild is pure sex and resting in power, so…maybe both

I know it from the Janelle monet song which apparently quotes a book from 2002 but I find it hard to believe that’s the first time the phrase was said.

What’s over engineered about it?

Yes, absolutely, and regularly, and without shame.

But not usually about technical stuff.

Why do you need machine learning for detecting scams?

Is someone in 2025 trying to help you out of the goodness of their heart? No. Move on.

graphene folks have a real love for the word misinformation (and FUD, and brigading). That’s not you under there👻, Daniel, is it?

After 5 years of his antics hateful bullshit lies, I think I can genuinely say that word triggers me.

Everything is sex, except sex, which is power

Exactly, it’s a CW show :)

I’ve never seen the original, though.

I assume they have the same issues with waiting in the end of the year to round up stocks and other interest/dividend income.

They have some solid CW content like the Addams family on and similar. It’s not good but it scratches an itch for 20-somethings being catty at each other.

I mean apple has spent at least the last decade using iMessage as a way to bring people into the platform and keep them there. Ie the articles from a few years back about using it to manipulate teenager behavior a la Instagram, or the epic games discovery documents which indicated this was a deliberate and cruel strategy from apple to lock ignorant people into their platform to avoid losing their social network.

Tldr: they deliberately try to make people lose friends if they leave the platform. You might say “shit friends” and I’d agree, but this is the FUD that apple spreads.

I think you overestimate the value of those first two years.

Your definition of freedom is an interesting one

Yep

Welcome to the future