No, we’re really all grug cavemen.

Edit: Maybe the programmer gets a copper spear, but we don’t get to be hyperintellegent and still write code this shit.

Like, libertarians? I have to think anyone seriously down the chud rabbithole would be embarrassed to even ride in one. Symbols of tribal loyalty are as big as ever in fascist land.

Looks like somebody’s backpedaling on a definite political statement after it became personally inconvenient.

It’s still possible to be off of the digital surveillance grid, but it is hard and a small subculture at best. I’m in it. It’s less that you’re forced to use whatever thing than that people forget not everyone does.

The Clarke book brought up elsewhere had the the right idea, but the wrong manifestation.

It’s a logical conclusion of facial recognition and mass indexing existing that anywhere remotely public you put your face is just fully public.

Honestly I have less of a problem with that than the illusion of privacy that’s been created anyway. Now we have a whole part of our economy that’s based on creeping on people, which couldn’t possibly exist if it was noticeable.

Dope. This one is new to me.

You can really tell that with the new clusterfucks drawing all the attention, things like social progress and fighting climate change are being neglected.

Edit: And Sudan. I’m less sure about social progress, actually, because it’s always been nebulous, but Sudan has gotten good and ignored.

Image generation often happens in a kind of region by region way, too, so not just continuing the arm might be hard.

It’s annoying that she asked ChatGPT why it was doing that and they reported the answer uncritically.

Hmm, the graph given is sus. The trend starts before the AI sector was really a thing, like literally 2010.

If I just look at the extra degree to which it came back after covid, it’s maybe double the dotcom bubble and a lot smaller than 2008.

Damn, so you could basically drive like a madman and not lose any significant power because of it.

with a maximum regen deceleration of 0.68 G before the carbon-ceramic friction brakes take over.

That sounds like a lot. Is that a lot?

Ah, okay. So it comes down to a strict definition of “belief” which requires total certainty. I’ve seen it used that way before, but when I say I believe something in everyday conversation, I never mean there’s no chance I’m mistaken.

I think one can take that even further. Is it possible that the fact that people who rely on truth and morality (which seems like a human constant if not a natural one) converge, is the whole reason either one has a place in our society? Almost all our instincts lead us away from them, otherwise. Everybody loves a comforting lie and the occasional atrocity against outsiders.

So do you believe in an objective reality, or not? You said a couple of opposite things there.

And what would those be, exactly?

It’s kind of a tale as old as time. If there’s a socially correct way to think, and at least two people, they’re inevitably going to disagree on which way that is at some point, and splinter into subfactions that hate each other. (Lemmy has examples of this already)

When this has happened before in politics specifically, liberal use of violent purges is the Nash equilibrium. If everyone with power but the great leader dies after a while, especially ones that dare contradict them, no enemy factions can organise.

I’m using AOSP, which is kind of Google-derivative, but I’ve gotten off of everything else. Geopolitics seems like it will get in the way of overbearing US monopolies pretty soon here, too.

Maybe, maybe not. Periods of hardware and software lockdown have ended before.

A hard fork off of Android seems like the easier path to me if it doesn’t. Sure, they can break compatibility, but it will take a while for that to catch up with us, and in the meanwhile we can use apps and infrastructure that already exists. And Fairphone, at the very least, seems likely to continue being receptive to whatever ROM you want.

No? Even if you forget about AOSP, which exists and is great, F-Droid could register as a dev. It seems to be a principled stance they’re taking not to.

If you’re on AOSP, Google can’t affect you this way. You just need a portal to find APKs.

Okay, but can you reprogram it to run Doom, before a creeper blows it up?

Well, I’m already running a custom ROM.

Non-Android Linux has a mobile software ecosystem problem as of last I checked.