Shaped like a gumdrop

There are hearing aids that look identical to wireless earbuds. I sometimes wonder if people using them get judged because everyone assumes they’re talking to them with earbuds in.

Fedora gets no funding and all the karen behaviour in their issues channel I bet. Working with a giant corporation as an open source project sounds like actual hell.

Is that a real thing? Like an onsite (let’s be real, workstation, not button) that can turn all the servers off? Not even the circuit breakers do that because there are redundant power sources.

That’s fair. That’s honestly the optimal use case. But with how fast technology tends to advance I suspect this will get marketed as “everyone should get one and you’re basically Amish if you don’t” before you know it (even if China’s socialist government has regulations on how companies can market stuff, we Westerners don’t and it’s a matter of time until some Western techbro company contracts this into the next gadget people will judge you for not having.)

People already judge me for being in the tech industry and refusing to use whatever latest app/service that’s going viral because I know how easily untrusted software can fuck you over.

Look, I get that this is impressive and all, but as a developer, keep that shit out of my brain.

And this is not a “hurr durr China dictatorship hurr durr SeeSeePee thought control” thing, it’s an “I have no reason to think they don’t have good intentions but software, no matter how genuinely well intentioned, will NEVER be trustworthy enough for me to connect my brain to” thing. We DO NOT understand the brain nearly enough to even begin to theorise what could go wrong or what kinds of exploits could be done on it. Maybe it’s because it’s a paradigm shift that I’m not prepared for, but this sounds like absolute security hell and can only go disastrously wrong. And you can’t wipe and reinstall your brain when it does, nor does evolution tend to patch CVEs in a timely manner.

Remember that there are ingestible chemicals, a comparatively extremely crude and imprecise way of controlling the brain, that can completely destroy your mental defenses and make you do whatever the attacker wants. Imagine a direct neuron level interface with a computer that can scale infinitely beyond the processing power of the brain. Fuck that shit.

I just use the web UI. It scales really well on mobile.

Not surprising, the venn diagram of people who would buy a Framework (or even know it exists) and people who would choose an open source OS (or even know they exist) overlaps quite a bit, I imagine.

Do vegetables actually need to be refrigerated? Always wondered. Is it an actual safety thing or just a preserving flavour/texture thing?

Yeah, how amazing that I can see anti-US propaganda Lego movies whenever I want. That’s what will ignite the revolution that makes our lives better, really some serious dissent that can conceivably lead to real change here.

Shitposts and memes about dissent to satiate the mases while all the real political discourse by activists with any real chance of accomplishing anything are censored and criminalised. Look at what happens to journalists objectively covering Iran, Israel, ICE, you name it. Look at how the protestors against oil pipelines or police racial violence are treated. So much freedom of speech for those people.

China and Russia haven’t been “communist” since… Well, forever

Technically correct because they are and were socialist respectively. “Communism” as a system is the endgame of socialism, characterised by dissolution of the State, and unfortunately has not yet been realised. Kind of like truely pure functional programming on our current stateful computer architectures.

So it’s particularly ironic when Israeli “communes” exist under the protection and apartheid enforcement of the checks notes STATE of Israel.

because they don’t have political freedom. there’s no stuff like “you can speak your mind as long as you’re respectful”

And the West definitely, absolutely has that

Part of the problem is the “mysticism” technology has to people who don’t understand it. The tech companies have an advantage when you don’t understand how tech works and they’ll keep it that way.

Eh, very little though. The components themselves are orders of magnitude more valuable but you have to know how to steal them to make money when even slight damage in a few spevcific places can make it nonfunctional.

Couldn’t even write a decent viral marketing ARG. Like if you’re going to go that route at least respect the art form.

Allies: Israel

In other news, a galaxy far far away has formed a new, better rebel group. Allies: The Empire.

Also “anti-some other group” is not an ideology. Stop calling that by itself an ideology. “I don’t like this group and don’t support them.” Cool, but what do you support then? What makes you different? Ideologies are positive assertions about what you actually believe in and what you would actually do. Negative assertions like “anti-whatever group” tell us nothing about who or what you actually are. Imagine if Marxists’ arguments started and ended with “capitalism bad” with no proposal or discussion on alternative systems and why they would work better.

There’s a strong cultural aversion in China to drugs in general (in large part due to the trauma of the Opium Wars) that need to be overcome for cannabis to be accepted, and there are signs that some progress is being made albiet very very slowly. But like you said it’s indeed a contradiction that alcohol and tobacco is much more normalized. I think a lot of the heavy handed drug enforcement in China is conflated to be due to socialism, but IMO it’s more due to culture and the socialist government, as any government should, conforms to the will of the majority on this issue. So the majority opinion/culture needs to shift first, kind of like the path toward legalization in Canada was in response to a similar cultural shift in its population. Am Chinese but don’t live in China so this is second hand information though.

Man they never stop trying to shoehorn caffeine in with liquor do they? Even when every doctor says it’s one of the worst things you can do besides drinking at all.

That makes sense. But still, tons of countries criminalize hemp as a material even with negligible THC levels. Which is bullshit even if you think recreational cannabis is bad.

Damn that’s some high praise.

Also, which is it libs? Did the USSR have a war on drugs a million times worse than the US where even touching a weed leaf got you the death penalty or was cannabis so normalized the government literally gave awards to producers? I’ve mostly heard the former in countries like Canada along the lines of “we never would have legalised weed if we were socialist! You’d be dead or in a gulag right now, stoner commie!”