Not strictly a scam, but there’s a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.

It’s just Facebook sucking really.

I’m sure you could have a fruitful conversation with the crowd insisting it was written by AI. :)

This is just obviously not the case to anyone who bothers reading it. It’s an original piece of writing.

The only thing that could hint at AI here is the use of em-dashes, which is a bullshit tell—I use them all the time myself as well. They’re right there for anyone with a compose key on Linux.

Yeah, I imagine parts of the US is probably pretty ideal for this. Where I’m from you’ll find remote places where it would make sense, but you probably wouldn’t want to drive around in a rather low riding sports car on the roads in these places. I guess this thing probably won’t be street legal in Europe anyway.

I think chapter 2 does a good job presenting the advantages.

Maybe you inherited someone else’s codebase. A minefield of nested closures, half-commented hacks, and variable names like d and foo. A mess of complex OOPisms, where you have to traverse 18 files just to follow a single behaviour. You don’t have all day. You need a flyover—an aerial view of the warzone before you land and start disarming traps.

Ask Copilot: “What’s this code doing?” It won’t be poetry. It won’t necessarily provide a full picture. But it’ll be close enough to orient yourself before diving into the guts.

So—props where props are due. Copilot is like a greasy, high-functioning but practically poor intern:

• Great with syntax
• Surprisingly quick at listing out your blind spots.
• Good at building scaffolding if you feed it the exact right words.
• Horrible at nuance.
• Useless without supervision.
• Will absolutely kill you in production if left alone for 30 seconds.

I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don’t have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don’t have your plane any more.

I think it’s pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it’s possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don’t exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.

I think maybe it does, but I’m a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can’t use I’ll just accept that I won’t be using them at this point. Their loss.

I live in Denmark, their state identification app does not work if it detects that the Android ROM is not straight from Google. So when I switched to /e/OS I couldn’t access anything any more. So yeah, in my case the solution was ta give up on one pretty critical app.

Thankfully the solution was as easy as getting one of those old fashioned code chips, and everything else seems to be working fine (including banking apps from other countries). So now I’m rocking /e/OS and I’m pretty sure there is no way I’m ever going back to Google Android.

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)

It’s hard to wrap one’s head around just how freaking rich the mega wealthy are. The 1% is not even the enemy at this point, they are closer to most of us than they are to the billionaire class.

I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.

Traffic fines are made to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.

Anyone who could make this news break would be in a position to steal unfathomable amounts of money in broad daylight, and get away with it.

I think we should always suspect bad actors in cases like this, and investigate thoroughly. It’s too easy of a scam with too much money to be made.

Maybe there is nobody to blame. But assuming so just seems incredibly naive to me considering the amount of bad actors and the ease of pulling a stunt like this.

Yeah. Money is not lost in finance markets, it is redistributed. Reading any of this as random and/or unintentional is beyond naive.

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Nevertheless, I believe that detaining European journalists for simply showing up indicates that the regime is more nervous now than it has ever been.

I agree Trump is normalizing authoritarianism, but I’m not sure he has had much of an impact on Erdogan. Erdogan has been leaning into authoritarianism for ages now, but few have protested as the economy has been strong. Now that he has destroyed the economy as well and people are protesting, he has nothing except the authoritarian textbook to protect him.

I have no doubt we will!

While we still doesn’t have all kinds of active niche communities over here, it is incredible how much the community has grown since I first came here. And that’s not really all that long ago.

Thanks for joining us! :)

Yeah, it’s a little ironic to say the least. I suspect the tech giants are more worried about titties than they are of literal fascism.

Ah, sorry, it’s in the context of what Elena Rossini writes about the limitations of the mobile app.

As PeerTube draws content from independent servers, it’s hard for them to comply with the content policies of Google and Apple. The PeerTube app you can find in the App Store or Google Play Store therefore only contains content from a very short list of whitelisted PeerTube instances, where Apple or Google have accepted content from these instances to be presented in their app ecosystems.

F-Droid doesn’t have such limitations, and as a result the stuff you’ll find in the F-Droid app is the same as you’ll find in https://sepiasearch.org/ .

It’s worth stressing that you can get around Google’s totalitarian restrictions by installing PeerTube from F-droid.

If you’re on Android, you should probably consider using F-droid whenever possible anyway. Personally I like Droid-ify, which is an F-droid client with a nice interface.

If you’re on iPhone, you’re out of luck. The EU might eventually come to the rescue of European users. American iPhone users will probably not be surprised to learn that they are shit out of luck.