That sounds like you can be replaced with a LLM. Let’s do that and save the company millions of dollars a year while us Plebeians got on with doing the real work and making money.

Glorified Lorem Ipsum.

90% of non-functional code, maybe.

These are all very good questions, which will all need to be answered eventually, and need to be considered at the platforms move forward.

A lot of these problems could be solved if Governments and business entities started running their own Mastodon servers, and other platforms (as appropriate).

Unfortunately government and businesses are increasingly outsourcing their IT infrastructure to commercial cloud services, rather than keeping them in-house.

ActivityPub is a major threat to the commercial social networks.

These laws are purely a way to regulate communication, but they are effectively a way to prevent new social networks from becoming established.

This is why the really big social networks are welcoming them with open arms. Even the criminal social networks are secretly pleased with them.

Laws only affect people too poor to manipulate them and too honest to disobey them.

That would explain why he had to check in with his FSB handler in Alaska last week.

The AlGoRyThMs are what is inducing the social damage.

Even games of chance (like Poker Machines and) would be less destructive if they were fairer and less engaging.

There will be a big curtaining of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Adobe if Facebook, TikTok and Twitter (and YouTube) have their algorithmic feeds outlawed.

It would probably cause the AI bubble to burst too so our OSs, Applications and Search Engines (and Government) would become usable again.

Repetition with sincerity.

Just keep telling them that they are beautiful.

Someone with body issues of any sort just need to have their self-esteem reinforced.

Targetting their specific issue can seam insincere. Just telling them that they are beautiful is enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

That’s right!

But if I stopped buying from AliExpress, I would have to purchase the exact same thing from Amazon or eBay at 10 times the price, and if I boycott the US companies as well, I would need to buy the exact same thing at 100 times the price from Bunnings!

(Meanwhile AliExpress sellers are reselling the exact same thing that can be purchased in bulk from AliBaba at 1/10th the price)

You have a very valid point. And the guns that they purchase wholesale are of much better quality than the retail crap available to civilians,

It’s almost as if their “Right to Bear Arms” was just an excuse for Firearms Manufacturers to sell more units.

Why the Fuck haven’t Americans borne arms against the profiteering tyrants who are currently destroying their country?

I’m not sure. I want a Linux Phone or compact tablet with a premium quality camera.

I would be happy if it does not have a capability to run Android Apps; only native KDE or GNOME apps. I would also be happy if it doesn’t support X and only works with Wayland.

The legacy of X, iOS and Android is a liability.

I reckon that the next phone I get will be a Linux Phone.

I will keep my iPhone mini for those things where I need an Android or iPhone (banking, government, etc), but my daily driver will be something that I have complete control over.

Time to watch Glass Onion again.

I live in a safe Australian LNP seat, the odds are that on Saturday night, our neighbours and I are (very likely) going to continue having a Right-Wing member of Parliament.

That does still mean that even though they are voting for our local MP, they are also voting for a former 1980s Queensland Cop with a suspiciously large amount of money as PM.

I would be happy if every (Australian) Coalition candidate and all the Right-Wing independent candidates received Zero votes this election, otherwise there are too many Australian Fuckwits.

I’ve edited my original post.

Now we both look like Goofs!