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calcopiritus

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  • If all your basic needs were met and you didn't have to work to get by, what would you do with your life?

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  • I would still be programming. Just that it would be the projects I want to do, instead of the ones my employer wants to do.

  • Honest feedback- Would you use this?

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  • I read the entire frontpage and I don't know the answer to these questions:

    1. What problem is this product trying to solve?
    2. How does this product solve the problem?
    3. What makes this product better than the alternatives?

    I would not use this product, because of marketing reasons. I believe (I don't remember if it's mentioned in the frontpage) that it is free, however, I haven't tried using it because I don't have an answer to those questions. I'm not a marketing person, but the front page is pretty important. Specially the start of it.

    Also, I don't know what it's supposed to look like, but I believe that the front page is broken. I'm on Android using Firefox mobile on a 2400x1080 screen.

    I hope that this helps.

  • Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

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  • Well. In that case we have to either move on to argue why I believe that a stateless society is bad and you believe it is good. Or just call it here and agree to disagree. Whatever you prefer. Since I don't think I can change your mind (on the basis of past experience about this topic, not something personal about you) or that you can change mine about that topic.

    EDIT:

    Or you could provide a different definition for "xenophobia". But I don't think I'll agree to any other definition.

  • Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

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  • No I wouldn't. Just like arguing a murder is not illegal grafitti, doesn't make you pro-murder. Arguing that a specific genocide is not xenophobia does not make me pro-genocide. I absolutely hate what Israel is doing to the Palestinians and I believe that someone should assassinate Netanyahu and all of his pro-genocide people on power of the Israeli government. Or imprison them for life.

    But you can miss my point all you want.

  • Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

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  • This specific technicality is important for your point though.

    I'm gonna explain my reasoning so you can choose whatever you want have a conversation about.

    Your claim was that putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.

    My point is that putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of a state. And furthermore, that it is a good thing.

    Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and that we should avoid it.

    If both of our statements are true. The natural conclusion is that we should have a stateless society. I don't think that a stateless society is a good thing. Therefore I'm trying to find a flaw in the argument. I think that the flaw is that you are wrong. So I have to have a conversation with you about why I think you are wrong.

    If you are wrong, it must mean one of these statements are wrong:

    • Putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.
    • Putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of the state.
    • Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and we should avoid it.

    Since 2/3 statements are made by me, of course I think they are true. So I'm going to argue about why the first one is wrong.

    The only way to proof your statement to be wrong is by first defining what xenophobia is. Which you might call a technicality, but I don't think it's possible to have a conversation if we don't first agree what the meaning of the words we use is.

    After defining what xenophobia is, we have to figure out if the "equation" is true: "putting citizens above non-citizens" = "xenophobia".

  • Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

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  • The results of an action being done for a reason being discriminatory does not make the reason invalid.

    Almost any policy is discriminatory.

    Taxing the rich more is discriminatory against the rich. Helping women out is discriminatory against the men. Ending segregation is discriminatory against people that don't want be near people different to them. The list is endless.

    I assume you agree with all 3 of those policies. Yet they are discriminatory. Those 3 policies are done because of very valid reasons.

    There are very few policies that I'd say are not desceiminatory. Like universal basic income or universal healthcare. And even then, by your definition of discriminatory, those would be discriminatory. Since they would still discriminate against non-citizens.

    There is no world where a person born in X country that has never left X country to receive income from a UBI policy of Y country. Unless X and Y countries have some sort of deal where that happens.

  • Trump Says Voters Signed up for His Tariffs When They Backed Him

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  • Ask any trump voter why they voted for trump. They will say "because I like his policies more". Ask them which policy do they think will benefit them, they will have no answer.

  • Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves

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  • Putting citizens over non-citizens is called being a government.

    Xenophobia is the irrational fear of foreign. And fear in this context usually shows up in the form of hate.

    Putting citizens first does not mean hating the rest. Being a citizen of a country means that your government should represent you and your interests. It's only natural that it develops into benefits for citizens.

    Xenophobia on a person level is when you see a person that you think is not part of your same origin, do you cross the street, or attack him or whatever. Of course this is not even close to being an exhaustive list.

    Xenophobia on a country level is when you punish foreigners irrationally. Not letting foreigners into your country because you have a housing crisis is not irrational, it is a valid reason.

    I find it hard to find examples of country-level xenophobia. Even if the act itself may seem xenophobic, the government may want to gain popular support of their xenophobic population, which would be a reason and thus non-xenophonic.

    Of course, not being xenophobic does not mean it is good. For example Israel genociding Palestinians is horrible. But their reason is that having a neighbor that claims the same land as you do is problematic, and they figured if they just kill everyone the world will forget in 100-200 years (or less) while the land will be theirs for longer than that with no revels, since they genocided them. Of course, having a reason does not mean that it's not many other bad things (in this case, genocidal, which is worse than xenophobic).

  • Mike Johnson quietly moves to block Democrats investigating Trump

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  • Don't need to enter conspiracy theory land. Elon musk bought votes out in the open. It was as public as it gets. 2024 US elections were not fair and democratic.

  • Modern Font Requirements

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  • Many editors can read config files from a file in the repository itself. And oftentimes it has the highest priority. Just gotta know the IDE of your target and they have to click "trust this project".

  • Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates

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  • IMAP is an incredibly simple protocol compared to the sum of all the protocols that are needed to implement a web browser.

    A web browser also has to be way more performant.

    Both an IMAP client and a web browser have to be reliable and secure. However achieving so in a system as complex as a web browser is incredibly expensive.

    Web browsers are almost as complex as operating systems.

    Complexity, performance, reliability and security on that level are expensive. You would be delusional to think a web browser should be worth as much as an IMAP client.

  • I'm new and missed the lore

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  • You can see it for yourself.

    Write a comment/post critical of china in any community from the lemmy.ml instance.

    For example about the Uyghurs or the mass surveillance or whatever is your topic of choice.

    See how much time it takes for them to ban you/remove your comment under their rule of "no xenophobia".

  • I'm new and missed the lore

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  • If by war you mean the Ukraine war. And by anti you mean give Russia all it wants in order to end it. Yes, anyone that is anti-war is a tankie.

  • Dev Interviews

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  • Do they ask to implement quick sort to people with job experience? I thought they only did that to juniors.

  • Malicious VSCode extensions infect Windows with cryptominers

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  • The more sandboxed the extension system, the less powerful it is.

    You either have an entity that approves of extensions. Or your users have to be very careful and trusting of other people. There's no other way.

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    It do be like that

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  • It's not an European thing. It's an awful statistics thing.

    People see a lot more trans people on the internet than IRL. Places on the internet usually have big programming spaces. Therefore the place where ppl see more trans ppl is in programming spaces. So now they think that most trans ppl are programmers. After that, they conclude that most trans ppl are programmers. Add to it the snowball effect of memes and now you have a huge misconception about reality.

  • Leading AI models fail new test of artificial general intelligence

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  • Ai companies will just train on these specific puzzles. Then they will claim their AI is AGI and the quality of the models will be the exact same or worse than before. They'll just have one checkmark more in their marketing.

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • Maybe the reason they crash less is because everyone around them have to be extremely careful with these cars. Just like in my country we put a big L on the rear of the car for first year drivers.

  • isInHell = 'true'

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  • For some reason we decided that a lot of formats written by computers and read by computers would use ASCII encoding instead of raw data.

    Making a json or XML deserializer case insensitive would just make it slower for almost 0 benefit.