Also cuts down on QA costs, offloading the burden of finding and cataloguing issues to the user. Since this is a monopoly, as you can't have multiple vendors competing for the best 4k restoration, and you can't have multiple streaming services competing for quality, they don't consider brand impact with low quality products because that's meaningless in this case.
You think like this because you have the privilege of not being affected by discrimination. It's not enough to "not be a racist". You are being downvoted because of this, and thinking everyone but you is immature for this conversation just highlights this.
> the main reason I liked computers was because we were all equals on the internet
You must have had access to a different internet than I did. That is not and has never been true.
The only way for everyone to be 'equal on the internet' (whatever that means) is to throw away or disregard everything that makes each of us unique, and all that leaves us with is a homogeneous beige sludge.
I’m sure it’s no irony to you - That right now. I’m reading your comment as if we are entirely equals no matter what the circumstances of your background or whatever job you have.
The only thing I know about you is that you call yourself, “basscomm” and unless I go digging (something that I couldn’t have done in the era of the BBS) then I’d have no way of judging your character before reading the words that you speak.
keep telling me my lived experience, please. I have no idea how I lived before you told me what happened in my live.
If there was discrimination it was because you didn’t contribute, or you opened the discussion. Doxxing in the 90s wasn't a meaningful risk, and social networks were small and largely isolated.
the condescension here is palpable. as if you know more? thanks for your sacrifice: enlightened one.
Total pish, once you got online you were just a name.
Didn’t like where you were, there was always somewhere else to go and a new name to take.
Getting access to the internet was a major issue for the poor (a situation I have first-hand experience in)- but once you were in, you were part of the club. Unless you behaved poorly- then you had to make a new name for yourself somewhere else.
Writing all those delusions and not connecting the dots is insightful.. You are so pampered in your own little delusion that don't seem to understand the actual concept of real discrimination. And looking at your socials, I understand why, you don't look like someone who has ever experienced real discrimination and just hissy fit about any hurt feelings as "discrimination".
Yeah, congratulation for having a normal life of suffering, you are not the only one. Doesn't answer the question why you are still so ignorant about the suffering of others and live in that a delusion of internet having been some kind of pink pony farm.
It's a shame that GitHub won the CI race by sheer force of popularity and it propagates its questionable design decisions. I wish more VCS platforms would base their CI systems on Gitlab, which is much much better than GitHub actions.
A really neat feature is that you can also trigger a job by just submitting a yaml file (with the web interface, the API or the cli) without needing to push a commit for each job. This is neat for infrequent tasks, or for testing CI manifests before committing them.
Companies where software is a cost and not an asset tend to be chilly.
You have to help the warehouse workers to optimize their picking pathing by some priority, the e-commerce to release a configurator for their new shiny car, scrape competitor's products and report it as an excel, build some search tool to help customer care find information quicker, etc, etc.
Nothing ground breaking that's gonna make your shareholders billions, but helps the business and pays you the bills without pyramid climbing or particular stress.
Of course, the pay is rarely comparable, but we're still talking way above the average salaries that can give you a comfortable life.
> Our internal monitoring system has uncovered multiple infected packages containing what appears to be an evolved version of the "Shai-Hulud" malware.
Although it's not entirely new, it's something else.
Gitlab's post and the linked discussion thread are both from November 24th 2025. I may be misreading the parent comment, but I'm personally thankful there isn't a Return of the Return of Shai-Hulud, as I assumed this was a third recent incident. For those concerned about these attacks, Helixguard's post (from the linked discussion) lists out the packages they found to be effected, while Gitlab's post gives more information on how the attack works. Since it's self-propagating though, assume the list of affected packages might be longer as more NPM tokens are compromised.
Social media is a reminder we are losing our voice to mass media consumption way before LLMs were a thing.
Even before LLMs, if you wanted to be a big content creator on YouTube, Instagram, tiktok..., you better fall in line and produce content with the target aesthetic. Otherwise good luck.
I think knowing when to do nothing is being able to evaluate if the problem the team is tackling is essential or tangential to the core focus of the project, and also whether the problem is something new or if it's been around for a while and there is still no standard way to solve it.
Yeah, that will be the make it to brake it moment because if it’s too essential, it will be implemented but if it’s not, it may become a competitive advantage
> Common man never had a need for internet or global connectedness
That's not how culture evolves. You don't necessarily need to have a problem so that a solution is developed. You can very well have a technology developed for other purposes, or just for exploration sake, and then as this tech exists uses for it start to pop post hoc.
You therefore ignore the immense benefit of access to information that technology has, something that wasn't necessarily a problem for the common man but once its there, the popularization of the access to information, they adapt and grow dependent on it. Just like electricity.
People with dialup telephones never asked for a smartphone connected to internet. They were just as happy back then or even more happy because phone didn't eat off their time or cause posture problems.
Sure, shopping was slower without amazon website, but not less happy experience back then. Infact homes had less junk and people saved more money
Messaging? sure it makes you spend time with 100 whatsapp groups, where 99% of the people don't know you personally.
It helped companies to sell more of the junk more quickly.
It created bloggers and content creators who lived in an imaginary world thinking that someone really consumes their content.
It created karma beggers who begged globally for likes that are worth nothing.
It created more concentration of wealth at some weird internet companies, which don't solve any of the world problems or basic needs of the people.
And finally it created AI that pumps plastic sewage to fill the internet. There it is, your immensely useful internet.
As if the plastic pollution was not enough in the real world, the internet will be filled with plastic content.
What else did internet give that is immensely helpful?
You're blaming the hammer for people driving nails into other's heads instead of walls.
A friend of mine, who had a similar opinion on technology, once watched a movie that seemed to reinforce it in his eyes, and tried to persuade me as if it was the ultimate proof that all technology is evil.
The plot depicted a happy small tribe of indigenous people deep in the rainforest, who never ever saw any artifacts of civilization. They never knew war, homicide, or theft. Basically, they knew no evil. Then, one day, a plane flies over and someone frivolously tosses an emptied bottle of Coca-Cola out of the window (sic!). A member of the tribe finds it in the forest and brings back to the village. And, naturally, everyone else wants to get hold of the bottle, because it's so supernatural and attractive. But the guy decides he's the only owner, refuses and then of course kills those who try to get it by force, and all hell breaks loose in no time.
"See", - concludes my friend triumphally, - "the technology brought evil into this innocent tribe!"
"But don't you think that evil already lurked in those people to start with, if they were ready to kill each other for shiny things?" - I asked, quite baffled.
"Oh, come on, so you're just supporting this shit!" was the answer...
You didn't actually refute any of the examples I gave. Show me the benefits of internet which helped equal sharing of the resources of this planet. Show me how internet did not help concentration of power and wealth. Show me how people's attention span and physical spaces are not filled by junk thanks to internet.
Why refute the examples based on the false premise that it's the medium's fault that it's filled with plastic bullshit (which I'm totally agree with, mind you)?
What's next, blaming electromagnetic field and devices to modulate it for beeing full of propaganda, violence and all kinds of filth the humankind is capable of creating? You find what you seek, and if not, keep turning that damn knob further.
But since you insist, some good frequencies to tune into:
1) Self-education in whatever field of practical or theoretical knowldege you're interested in;
2) Seeing a wider picture of the world than your local authorities would like you to (yes, basically seing that all the world's kings are naked, which is the #1 reason why the Internet became such a major pain in the ass for the kings' trade union, so to say);
3) Being able to work from any location in the world with access to the Internet;
4) You mentioned selling trash en masse worldwide, but I know enough examples of wonderful things produced by independent people and sold worldwide.
The list could be longer, but I hate doing useless and thankless work.
Thanks for providing some positive examples. But these examples are dwarfed by the negative effects brought in by internet, in my view. Sure, a modulated signal can be used for broadcasting weather report or some propaganda. But the rush to push technology was done mostly by not talking about the negative effects. Same is happening with AI. Sales prospects are the positive benefits driving it. No one want to say that the tiger which they are bringing back to life, because they can, is an enemy of humans.
I do agree with you that the negative aspects have been overwhelming any remaining good for quite some time, and that's a constant source of mourning for good things which keep succumbing to evil in this world for me.
You don't need to have a solution to explore a problem in my opinion. OP comment is problematic but for reasons other than not having a proposed solution.
If you want portability on something premium, I can't recommend enough the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7. Specwise I've got the one with the Core ultra 5 125h. It also has an option with the 155h, but it battery and thermals can take a hit that I don't think it's worth it. It's got 16gb spread across 8x2gb modules and 512gb of ssd, both soldered, both extremely fast.
Build quality that rivals MacBooks, but with superior keyboard, very nice battery life and an oled screen on top of it.
The problem I had with the oled screen is that I thought it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade: https://github.com/gchamon/archie/blob/main/hypr/shaders/vib.... I am looking for a better solution because the filters get picked on screenshots and washes out the colours. I need to find an ICE profile or export one from Windows.
The camera also behaves a bit weirdly. It has noticeable quality difference when using chromium and other browsers, the latter with perceptible quality degradation.
Other than that, a very good mobile linux driver, snappy, cool, quiet, charges fast and a joy to use.
> it oversaturate reds out of the box on Linux, which I corrected using hyprshade
Another option would be Redshift, which has a nice widget (Redshift Control plasmoid) for KDE Plasma. It doesn't affect grabbed screenshots or stuff like simplescreenrecorder, BTW
Do you know what the oled screen resolution is on your device? One of my family members has what I believe is the same laptop, and while I appreciate the build quality, the OLED clearly isn't RGB (in its subpixel arrangement - or some other such major aspect), because the 1080p screen looks so bad for text I initially thought it was broken.
Oled pc screens have a terrible reputation for text. Some more than others, but it seems it's better to stick to lcd if you happen to read or write a lot.
My daily driver is an X1 Carbon gen 5. 8 years old by now, but runs Arch (btw) flawlessly. I had an M1 MacBook Air before this and I actually prefer the old ThinkPad (but I do miss the MacBook's battery life)
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