Nothing? Im as pessimistic as it gets, but it has provided traction for at least 3 competing decentralized alternatives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCfNxLjgsKk

Tough question. I don’t think the descendants of european, asian and african settlers are going back home any time soon.

Sure, advertising your secret plans in public might not be the best idea, regardles of the medium.

From the technical standpoint, internet has never been more secure and private. The amount of plaintext shit that was literally flying over the air just a decade ago was terrifying.

Superman himself is invulnerable, the rest of the world isn’t

Go watch The Boys!

What I like: The effort and persistence of the developers

What I dislike: The ActivityPub protocol.

The value of an art piece is always subjective. The price (closest thing we have to the objective value) is determined by the buyers.

What other mechanism would there be? A committee? That’s a bit nazi for my taste. A popular vote? Look at the election results to see why that might be a bad idea.

The theme is a bit touchy these days, especially in certain small country in eastern europe, where the new minister started to cut subsidies to the art she considers unworthy, obscene and politicized, in favor of art reflecting so called traditional values and national identity. The mere existence of the ministry of culture, established with the most noble goal of supporting art, creates this kind of potential vulnerability.

With both Samsung and Google interested in XR hardware

After how they handled the GearVR, I sure as hell am not going to buy anything VR related from Samsung. Perfectly good hardware bricked by removing the software from the internet.

What are the capitalists doing to prevent you from expressing artistically?

This has nothing to do with Google Play services. Replacing the google services with another proprietary crap would be nothing (and cost relatively nothing) compared to building an entire operating system almost from scratch. This is a dick measuring contest. Although the chinese dick is shiny and impressive in this regard so far.

Plus, even google is playing with the idea of dropping linux, with the Fuchsia project.

I just love how google has pushed the narrative that the space up top is scarce, therefor no more than 4 persistent notifications can show up there, only to rediscover all that free real estate now.

If it’s not the default behavior, the target audience of the ads will not do it.

It is one of the most widely used health metrics but also one of the most reviled, because it is used to label people overweight, obese or extremely obese.

That’s like blaming the ruler for labeling you too short or too tall… Can’t we just use the tool for rough assessment, while being aware of its limitations, and be happy about it?

It’s an excellent thin client as well. I’ve played the second half of death stranding through the free tier of Geforce Now.

But would the 2 pictures fit together? When you shorten the lens-display distance, you basically zoom in.

I will never understand why we force 2 radio enabled devices to communicate through some server hundreds of kilometers away.

You are right my brother in arms, let’s overthrow the cooks! Enough with their bullshit already! Free burgers for everyone! Burgers to the people! People’s burgers!

When thoughts like this trouble me, I simply realize how awesome it is that you can simply summon a burger using the magic box in your pocket. What a great time to be alive!

If my grandma wanted a burger at my age, she would have to wake up early in the morning to catch a good spot in queue in front of the butcher shop.

No need to sign your posts, we can already see the username.

very same factories that produce consumer goods with a profit incentive today, can do the same for the benefit of the people tomorrow.

Yes. Until everyone ends up in poverty, because over time, nobody knows what to make and how much. The longer the supply chain the stronger the effect will be.