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If by "original developer" they mean Notch, no thanks, disgusting bigots won't get my money.

It never fails to frustrate and shock me when I see public entities relying on private software and platforms.

My local schools rely heavily on Windows and Google. Important Govermental notices are shared on Twitter first.

This is nuts. I really think public infrastructure should be mandatorily tied to open and free solutions.

I'm fairly convinced posts like this are sponsored by these platforms to trick young women into joining, as they need an endless supply of new "content" when people get bored of the popular models. That fetish site "Feet Finder" did that a lot, they sponsored tens of thousands of TikTok creators to pretend they got rich selling their feet pictures, when in reality, the people joining the platform were never paid.

I made my RuneScape character female once, couldn't last a single day, people are extremely annoying. I did get somebody to drop me a rune platebody with gold trims though, which was nice.

I used to think the same. I'm all for digital privacy, but listening to a microphone? That's ridiculous, the legal ramifications would be enormous. Plus, encoding and sending all this data? Not practical, and of course, we are fully aware of confirmation bias and selective memory so for sure those personal anecdotes must be coincidences.

Then it happened to me. I use a VPN, all my devices have a billion types of ad blocking, private DNS, JavaScript disabled by default and so on. Then I mention a product next to my girlfriend, a product that only interested me and I had recently discovered, nothing she was ever aware of... and while I was still right next to her, five minutes later, her phone is showing up ads for said product. Her phone, not mine. The product is not Coca-Cola, it's not something that often pops up.

What other explanation could there be? The coincidence of the year? They are listening.

and underage looking girls and excessively gross porn

hol' up

Keep in mind even if you decline everything and use a special ROM, your SIM card is a tiny computer running Java (yes, I know) and your carrier can run arbitrary applets there with access to your modem and some RAM.

It has been shown multiple times that they can track locations this way, and some exploit chains have allowed them to use this to fetch other data from the phone.

I'm sure calling it a "dev kit" and not a product "expected to sell many units" whilst having inventories full of the thing and a few failed attempts at pushing sales is how they're going to try to spin this failure.

They did not. Only the firmware is open source, the driver is closed

Pretty much impossible at the moment, but I wish Linux had smarter VRAM management. At the moment its the most naive approach possible, which works, but doesn't handle VRAM pressure nearly as smoothly as Windows.

This is (partially) the reason most of these "Windows vs Linux 14 games tested!" videos show a small difference in average FPS but a large deficit in 1% lows.

I'd entertain your theory, but Facebook is pretty much only kept alive by boomers and Mark's AI multiverse web 3.0 became a commercial failure, so I don't think your idea that he understands young people and is just ahead of me holds.

I think Zuckerberg fundamentally misunderstands humans. I don't even mean the memes of calling him a robot or lizzard or whatever, I truly believe being a billionaire in a tech bubble from a young age severely harmed his notion of his own species to the point of being pathological.