I think it's more the other way round. Politics has become the Onion, and even gone well past it, while the Onion has stayed in the same place and accidentally become a serious news source.
Because the enemy is senile and flipflops depending on who he last talked to, and will give you what you ask for if it can hurt someone (missiles, in this case) and you give him a particularly garish shiny bauble in exchange.
Being a bathroom it should be the other way round, in case of power loss it should stay opaque.
It's oniony because no sane reasonable person would design it this way, unless they were intentionally being a terminal asshole. It looks like absurd humour.
The rust part, if done well, would be a good step.
We're talking machine translating the whole codebase from c to rust like one would translate a book from one language to another, here (i.e., without the machine actually understanding a single word, much less long groups of them).
Hey now, I'm doing what I can. I ported the thing from .NET Framework to .NET 6 (now mostly 10), and recently from Entity Framework 6 to Entity Framework Core (which was quite more of a hassle) without any documentation or assistance and it's running less worse than ever, and I'm planning some upgrades that should make it almost useable!
I'm still planning to rewrite it from scratch on my own time these holidays because it should be less work than maintaining the damn thing, of course, but still.
Explain how protein folding software, which predates "genAI" by decades and has as many similarities with it as with Tetris, has anything to do with this conversation.
Smartphones are actually useful, and don't have the moral, ethical, economic, societal, and existential issues that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) has.
Of course not, but I think not supporting those that use it to produce something you want to enjoy doesn't necessarily imply not enjoying what they produce, as long as it's not too thoroughly damaged by their use of it and as long as it can be obtained in ways that won't support them.