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  • Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism

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  • Kinda depressing that all of big-tech seems to have given up "innovating" (finding applications for publicly-funded research), and have become rent-seeking dinosaurs.

  • What did Musk and Trump fall out over?

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  • From the people I know, who do depend on these programs and like Trump, they don't believe they will have their benefits reduced. The think the other people, "taking advantage" of the system will be kicked off. It's being sold as reducing fraud and abuse. The right-wing has been pushing this framing for decades, and many people have bought into it.

  • AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto

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  • but it turns out all that cash was going toward a workforce of over 700 Indian engineers, rather than an AI.

    I doubt much of that cash was going to their workforce. Should have though.

  • The solution to many problems

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  • Montezuma’s revenge

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • Guess I just prefer languages that do it this way:

     
        
class AClass {
  var aProp = 0

  fun aMethod() {
    aProp++
  }
}

    Though I suppose confusion and bugs can happen when you do something like:

     
        
class AClass {
  var aProp = 0

  fun aMethod(aProp: Int) {
    // `this.aProp` is needed to access the property
  }
}

  • Uyghur Workers Are Moved to Factories Across China to Supply Global Brands

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  • A lot of the immigrant labor has been at least slave-like for decades too. Under constant threat of deportation on their "employer's" whim. Fairly common for "employers" to take documented worker's documentation to hold them hostage. Reports of some farmers housing and working workers fenced-in, having them working under gunpoint. Some farmers have been caught buying and selling immigrants amongst each-other. I remember a report of a meatpacking plant calling ICE on its own employees to have them deported after they started asking for better treatment, then just hiring more immigrants to replace them. Hell, I even remember near where I grew up, you could see the shed-like shacks from the road on one farm where they kept the migrant workers; no electricity, didn't look like they had any running water either.

  • Very Encouraging if correct. But hardly surprising.

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  • From the stuff I've looked at, it's often nonsensical. Doing stuff in unconventional ways for little apparent reason. Like, in BMWs example, you have to use a lift or jack up the car level to just check the transmission fluid; or the mostly-plastic cooling system which fails and results in the engine being ruined often. I've seen other weird engineering choices in electronics too (have done contract work for a German company).

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • I've always found needing to manually add a class instance parameter (i.e. self) to every object method really weird. And the constructors being named __init__. Not having multiple dispatch is kinda annoying too. Needing to use decorators for class methods, static methods, and abstract classes is also annoying. Now that I think about it, Python kinda sucks (even though it's the language I use the most, lol).

  • How to deal with LLMs/ AI?

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  • Haven't used it yet, but venice.ai looks interesting; they have a good privacy policy. Right now, I just use ChatGPT with the "improve models" setting turned off, and use "temporary chat" mode. I don't really trust OpenAI to be doing the right thing though. I've used 14B models locally, but they aren't as good as 72B+ models.

  • US court blocks Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs

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  • Yeah, I was kind of hoping this fascist government would fail-fast so we could start rebuilding.

  • That is the way

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  • ‘Harrowing': Video shows Worcester police hold girl's face on ground during ICE operation

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  • In my limited experience of just living in bad neighborhoods, most gangs I've encountered are just small groups of kids that sell drugs, rob, burglarize, fight, and occasionally kill kids in other small groups. From talking to older people that were in gangs (well, they still consider themselves to be in a gang, but the gang doesn't functionally exist or do anything), things were much different in the 80s and 90s. Guessing it differs depending on the city though (there aren't really "territories" in my city; drugs are sold through apps/text).

  • Donald Trump defends gift of 747 jet from Qatar as new Air Force One

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  • They seem to be trying to emulate Russia, Hungary, or even Nazi Germany. So probably similar things. The US tech oligarchs seem to want something like Dark Enlightenment, while the other politically powerful sect seems to want christo-fascism; all seem to be white nationalist to varying degrees.

  • The Republicans’ Budget Makes No Sense | Congress is trying to preserve the illusion of revenue while cutting taxes.

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  • I think some people in the admin actually want that. A lot of them are heavily into crypto and other assets such as real-estate, and they won't be able to balance trade as long as the USD is the world's reserve currency.

  • The Republicans’ Budget Makes No Sense | Congress is trying to preserve the illusion of revenue while cutting taxes.

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  • I think they could just print money to pay instead of defaulting because the debt is denominated in USD (still disastrous though).

  • Trump officials ‘created confrontation’ that led to arrest of Newark mayor

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  • There are multiple videos to corroborate.

  • We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then.

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  • And immigrants here legally as well. And because they're ignoring due process and habeas corpus, I have no doubt, citizens who committed no crime soon (they've already kidnapped citizens and looted citizens homes, but haven't exiled citizens yet, AFAIK).

    Edit: Forgot. Yes, they have already started kidnapping and exiling citizens who are minors.

  • so brave and yet so true

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  • I think it's mostly regular homebuyers that give them the money (well, the bank, through mortgages).

  • why though

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  • Yes, and it's very popular, at least with younger people. Asmongold, Rogan, Shapiro, Fresh and Fit, Charlie Kirk, etc. They're usually further right than mainstream too. The algorithms boost them, they typically sell snake oil/crypto, and are suspiciously well-funded (last year, many were found to be taking Russian money).