He’s just building his little kingdom to set up for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Like all the billionaire tech bros want

Oh I did not get that reference, thanks for sharing and fuck him

Well the Republican way is carrying the baby to term so that it becomes more meat for the machine, we need those disposable workers and consumption machines, not supporting the parents or baby after it’s born is part of the point

Also this is teams and teams of people, from different nations, organizations, all working on his messaging. Don’t for a second forget this is dark enlightenment, heritage foundation, maybe Russia too, he’s a puppet and someone put in his place from that same group of mixed but related goals will be either the same or worse

Remember, if you’re brown and get accused of doing that, fat dudes pretending to be tactical black bag you. If you’re a rich celebrity and literally do that, people just laugh and it’s ok

I think spotify / discord / vscode (and derivatives) / slack are probably the most installed electron apps.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=&SB=v&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go

A lot of pretty popular packages in those lists are electron apps, unfortunately

“On next week’s episode of whycombinator”

Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

that’s the issue. the grim reaper is just edging himself. it’s up to him when he’s finished

Because the party of small government is in power, duh

They’re made to “Enhance the user experience profit”

“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:

• Dev work vs actual customer usage (e.g. it wasn’t getting a lot of users but devs had to maintain it with each update)
• People were using it to intercept the stream and capture movies to pirate.

Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that

“You worked really hard this year. 60 hour weeks. Impressive but you can do more. See that rolls Royce in the parking lot? If you work 80 hour weeks next year and everything works out, I’ll be able to buy a second one.”

This mass user exodus sponsored by ExpressVPN™

^🎻

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse

Honestly I have to begrudgingly dual boot windows a few times a month to use certain software for freelancing work, so I bought an enterprise windows 11 key from a grey market vendor for like 12 bucks and then used group policy to disable copilot everywhere it was possible

One reason this sucks so much is people say shit like this at crypto conferences and mean it as a compliment

“If 10 people are sitting at a table being civil to 1 nazi, there are 11 nazis at the table.” or however the quote goes

“Do you take your spouse until the end of time? As your final relationship? Your final fantasy?”

Yep. As always: Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.