You're missing the point—we are each supposed to have our agent summarize the key points for us so we don't have to read all the generated slop!

Let me do that now: hmm, this article seems to be a complaint about applications that waste energy.

Sounds like a viral Tweet. Why wouldn't it be able to gain traction?

It wouldn't gain traction as a blog post, which is my point. Maybe this person would rather have a blog than engage on Twitter.

I just read Brent Jeffs's book "Lost Boy" last year. The amount of control the church leaders exert over the people is disturbing. (Even after the top leader has been revealed as a sexual predator.)

They accept the control because it gives them a better quality of life. It's not even one one-millionth the control large tech companies have over the lives o f US citizens. There is an entire cast out "lost boys" called the third world the Americans gladly accept. Even after the top leader has been revealed as a sexual predator.

I don't see why megacorporations and governments are allowed to control the computer I carry around in my pocket, while I'm not.

This is a bit related, but not precisely on top of the major topic we are discussing, but I'll say it anyway: I just got a brand new Samsung A56 for my personal use, and I just found out, like a minute ago, that I can't set a maximum battery charge (say 85%) without internet. It's asking me to turn on the WiFi. This makes no sense whatsoever. If I had to guess it's because Samsung wants to keep a profile of my battery settings and they need that telemetry, but not allowing me to set the bloody thing without internet is insane.

Another thing that happened yesterday when I was setting up the phone was the mandatory need of an internet connection, otherwise the phone would simply not allow me to move on with the setup.

I'm this fucking close to sell this thing and try my luck with a Chinese smartphone, which I'm pretty sure is not going to toss that shit on my face. (I had a Chinese one and a Galaxy S20 FE before, both on different Android versions, 10 and 11 iirc that wouldn't block me like that)

/rantOver

GrapheneOS proves it's not an absolute, that "the computer I carry around in my pocket" must depend upon a megacorp / gov. <3

The issue still is boiling down to GrapheneOS having less $$ for marketing vs GOOG / Alphabet / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

Because it's their creation.

I don't know if that is sarcasm, but a chair I buy is mine to do whatever I want with it. Same goes for clothes, a mattress, paint, or any other non-software enabled physical item. Why does having software/hardware make a difference?

Because your clothes and paint do not need security updates, since they do not talk to the internet. Your mattress cannot be made part of a botnet.

Somehow my computer has not become part of a botnet despite having a free OS.

A quite large chunk of botnet "members" are IoT crap (even mattresses).

Tell that to my eightSleep mattress

You can do whatever you want with your phone too, it isn’t illegal to jailbreak an iPhone for example.

That scene is dying a boiling-frog death. The newest OS that is fully jailbreakable on a sufficiently-modern arm64e device is 16.5.1 (go back a few models to the iPhone X and the current Dopamine beta works up to 16.7.15). There is also a "semi-jailbreak" called nathanlr, which is less full featured and works up to iOS 17.0 on iPhone 15 and prior. There's also TrollStore which isn't a jailbreak, but allows unlimited sideloading with arbitrary entitlements. This tool only functions on the following versions of iOS: 14.0 beta 2 - 16.6.1, 16.7 RC (20H18), 17.0

These OS versions are getting long in the tooth, and apps are already starting to drop support for them.

Because capitalists extend control wherever they can to maximize profitability.

If you want decisions that corporations make to be aligned with the desires of their users, you should be advocating for software/hardware built by consumer cooperatives.

Ouch. Imagine being let go just a few weeks from vesting. Doesn't seem fair to let someone work for months and months in anticipation of their big prize and then yank it away at the last minute.

> A job today isn’t (*and shouldn’t be*) any guarantee of a job tomorrow.

This is nonsense and shouldn’t be normalized.

In germany you have the opposite and it is also nonsense.

You have to work with people that do literally nothing (usefull to the goal of the company) and they can't be fired.

Companies are afraid to hire. Young people only get short therm contracts. If a company needs to cut jobs it has to keep employees with children over the others.

What society will be more productive?

What makes you think that productivity is the most important goal? I’ll take Germany way over Silicon Valley bullshit any time of the day.

You have actually more to give if you are more productive.

Germany acts like money grows on trees. Reality will come and hit hard.

> Reality will come and hit hard.

Like it hit Block and Oracle workers already?

A bit harder unfotunately.

Less than 20 million people in germany pay more taxes than they get money from the government (if you consider state employees as getting money from the government). With a population of over 80 million.

Think about what happens if that is not financially viable anymore.

The ability to fire people without notice is not Silicon Valley bullshit - it is how the labor market works in almost all places in the entire world.

It is ridiculous to think that either party to an employment relationship should be forced to participate longer than they wish to.

Normalized? It’s how things work everywhere. The burden of proof is on you to specify why you think this is “nonsense” and on what basis you justify violatiny the consent of one of the parties.

Giving any kind of notice about layoffs while expecting employees to continue working is just bad for everyone.

The employees stress out about whether they're going to be impacted. Nobody gets much work done as they update their resumes and prepare for the worst. The best people start looking for other opportunities and find them. If specific employees are told they're going to be laid off, some seek revenge.

Much better to immediately notify those impacted, revoke their access, give them generous severance instead of expecting them to work, and let everyone else know they're safe.

You immediately notify to the affected persons with the given notice period. This is how it's done in civilized countries.

Maybe they could be kept on the payroll without access to actually work.

But the real problem is any law that would deport someone 30 days after they were laid off, even if they had been working for years. That should be 6 months minimum.

Keeping them on the payroll also enables companies to easily manage and extend medical insurance. I’m pretty sure that what you propose is what a lot of companies actually do, too. They keep them on the payroll for the duration of their severance but do not expect them to actually work.

Agree that no one should be getting deported on 30 days because they got laid off.

I've seen this type of thing with OsmAnd too. My hypothesis is that someone messed up when drawing the map, and made the offramp an extension of the highway. But I haven't actually verified this.

Yo, we decided to build a dam in the creek behind your house. We're not sure what the impact will be on your house and backyard, so watch out. You've got three days, construction has already started.

It was gonna cost 1 million of your tax dollars to build the levee protecting your house, but we're saving you money by building it out of sticks. We'll send a dude out to throw a few more on every few days.

7 years to estimate the impact? I'm guessing it would take a professional an afternoon.

About the same time it'd take me to build Twitter.