Such is the unrelenting match of progress.

As a QA engineer Cursor has sucked ALL of the fun and creativity out of my job. Also cost two of my subordinates their job

I can’t deny it’s useful though

I think Anthropic will survive. Claude code is very useful.

Cursor may secure Groks future too.

Whatsapp business data

marketplace data “Send me the money at xxxxxxxx xx-xx-xx”

instagram influencer pages

it’s absurd how much data meta have access to

I use AI for some of the documents i create

I also read and iterate on what it writes

Don’t trust the hallucination machine

Specific games I like

Local (and I do mean local) discussion

Brewing

Caravanning

Car stuff (communities around the specific make/model of car I own)

Etc…

I did for two years. This place is great so long as you like talking about trump, tech and trek. Anything involving special interests outside of those though, Reddit has it.

Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

My VPN use probably didn’t help either

I’ve been using it for years, very few problems

My partners midwife googled stuff in front of us and parroted the AI summary back to us when we asked if a specific drug was okay for pregnant people

The new bimmers are ugly as sin.

I say that as someone who loved his e90

You went to a school where they had no controls over what you could and couldn’t access?

My school was blocking harmful content on their computers when i was there in the mid to late 2000s.

When i got home i had something called CyberSitter on my computer in my room that sent logs of all my internet usage as reports to my dad.

It took me until 16 when i went out and bought my own computer with my own money before i had “unfettered” access to the internet.

Were these tools impenetrable fortresses? no, of course not. but they were a damn sight better than the ISP level blocks and legislating the “good” companies out of existence that the UK (and others) Government is currently engaged in.

Not that any of this is really about “protecting kids” anyway

I’m not, but I also don’t live there

So they can still fuck off.

Also I have free healthcare and consumer protection laws

As an iPod owner, I wish I got a zune

it’s the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE’S ID

Tell him there’s a big different between checking an ID and making copies of one

There was a big exodus to signal for a while a couple years ago when meta were fucking with their whatsapp privacy policy, similar to the exodus from reddit to lemmy.

Having your infrastructure on a cloud provider allows you to keep your costs in line with your current amount of users, if you have a big influx you can immediately scale up to accommodate them, and then when that spike in users dies off as they invariably do you can scale back down instead of being left with a load of hardware you’ve just bought for your new users (that have since fucked off) and now aren’t using

I think that’s what @ArmchairAce1944 was getting at

You have to obey the law of whatever country you are currently occupying.

They’re not “occupying” or even operating here. all the servers have been in Texas since 2008. The British gov are attempting to legislate feature implementations for companies that aren’t operating in britain. it’s ridiculous.

British government fines an American company, based in America, for serving data from American servers that was compliant with American law.

This whole law is complete overreach. It’s like banning a book and then getting mad at the author when one of your citizens buys one on holiday and brings it back with them

I’m sure there will be some sort of compatibility layer available. Android Linux based after all.

tbh part of the rough experience for me may be down to the hardware. the ubports version of the pinephone i have is quite low power. 2GB memory and a little ARM Cortex-A53

tis sluggish

dug my pinephone out of a drawer yesterday and gave it a whirl. still pretty rough unfortunately even after updating postmarket os.

Cool being able to SSH into my phone though