This is honestly the reason why it’s going downhill, forcing people to do Y or use Z because of some problem irrelevant to the question being asked.

It limits creativity and depth of discussion on a forum designed to discuss all principles of programming

Oh you poor fool, if only you knew how good things could be…

Migrated away from Google because they’re just genuinely useless.

Search results are infested with AI bullshit and SEO slop, can’t actually search for anything useful unless you know the website you’re looking for, in which case I just go to the website directly.

Youtube curates a selection of completely irrelevant videos to try to shove ads down your throat, I still have to change my user agent string every time because YouTube throws a hissy fit at firefox with ublock.

Gmail is pretty much the same as any other email provider but comes at the expense of your data being sold for advertising purposes.

Don’t even get me started on the shit show that is Android.

I run GrapheneOS, Fedora and debian, self host what I can and use decent providers for what I can’t. I’m the furthest away from the big tech corps than I’ve ever been and it feels great to have computers that actually compute and not serve me useless fucking ad drivel.

Oh yeah the very nice police force that has absolutely not been systematically trained to shoot first and ask questions later when things go south?

Imagine being at war for literally over 90% of your societies existence and you don’t want half your population to have the ability to become combatants.

F tier warrior race

4chan is back online just so you know

They’re useless because the capital powers that be actively try to misinform the public on preferential voting (As part of a larger attack on education to keep a complicit population)

If I had a dollar every time I heard someone tell me I’m throwing away my vote for preferencing a minor party that has no hope of winning I’d probably have enough money to bribe a politician into making some decent fucking policy

I get it gals, I wouldn’t want to be around this either. Oof.

Pfft we got rid of that yonks ago, now you just have to have an AI rewrite your documentation as a million shitty tutorials that are all search-engine optimised on different websites and hope the user finds one semi-legible.

It’s a piece of piss, literally.

I mean yeah it’s one-shot land but I’d feel more comfortable in the Australian bush than in other territories, a lot of these creatures can be avoided with a little bit of knowledge and caution, but there’s no large predators

Most large creatures here can beat the shit out of you but they wouldn’t unless you threatened them.

In a similar boat, I guess I would be considered a pantheist by definition.

Staunch atheist growing up, asked myself a similar question. My religious views don’t necessarily change my view of how the world comes to be, or promises anything like eternal salvation; just an acknowledgement that all of this comes from something and by definition you could consider that something to be god.

Any extrapolations ontop of that would have to be considered faith or conjecture.

In fact I think most people would find it somewhat depressing to come to a similar conclusion initially, but the questions that come from this pondering have really helped me find a harmony with the universe and I’m appreciative of that

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This game looks fun as

That’s cool and all, it won’t help with the global view that America is erratic and not to be trusted now since their economy can flip on a dime

BRICS goes brrrrr

Oh no! Not capitalism!

Oh god youre the person behind all the legacy codebases I’ve maintained

Well said, it’s a very grim situation.

I just feel like the 1.5C target has done more harm than good, it allowed policymakers to mislead the public on climate goals and continue to kick them down the road. I feel like “There is no safe level of climate change, we must deescalate now” would have been a better approach.

But still it’s a method of quantifying climate change and I suppose we’d have more denialism if there wasn’t clear data out there.

This is an economic war and it has been going on for some time, they have no need to fund armies. They’ve already subverted our way of life.

The oligarchs have united to fight against us, we need the working class to unite and fight back before it’s too late

Yeah I hate this stuff too, I usually pipe it into a file figure out what it’s doing and manually install the program from there.

FWIW I’ve never found anything malicious from these scripts but my internal dialogue starts screaming when I see these in the wild, I don’t want to run some script and not know what it’s touching malicious or not it’s a PITA.

As a linux user, I like to know what’s happening under the hood as best I can and these scripts go against that