The majority of the world considered slavery and women being subservient normal, that didn’t make it right.

You think it’s brain dead to reject a digital ID.

I think it’s braindead to sacrifice privacy for the sake of safety, especially when it’s so transparent that the goal is control and suppression and not “protecting the children”.

To each his own.

I want to like it but I can’t. The charging has a very tiny sweet spot which is easier to detect via audio.

But audio for weapons is very unstable right now, making it very difficult to find.

Also, as others have said it’s very much a jack of all trades, but not as good. It’s almost like the AC, but without a backpack, for less power, less range, less consistency etc…

It can do more AT stuff than the autocannon buy given all the other downsides it’s a weapon that’s basically asking too much for a “meh” payoff. If it had a larger blast or more damage (maybe different firing modes) plus a more forgiving hot spot it would be a pretty fun option I feel.

The problem is not the ID cards that other countries have. That would be reasonable, even if one could argue NINO is sufficient.

The problem is the online/app nature if them which, in conjunction with OSA, makes it dystopian control scenario.

I’m not ignoring those upsides that you mentioned, I just didn’t mention them or wasn’t aware. I like most of them for what it matters.

But I do still consider OSA and digital IDs an authoritarian measures and I do find this to be of high enough importance to potentially overshadow all of the above.

What’s the point of living in a, arguably, more socialist state if your privacy doesn’t exist? I’m not a bloody tanky and I don’t like that angle, like many others.

His supposedly labour government has also doubled down on censoring wikipedia, calling people pedo-sympathizers for resisting absurd internet control laws that literally affect every digital facing international company, and is now promoting a digital ID straight out every digital era authoritatians or fascist’s wet dreams.

Is he better than sunak? Probably? Kinda? That’s a very low bar though and the fact that we even talk about it is sad. Their actions have been so much unlike what people think about when voting labour parties that it’s surreal.

People reasonably feel cheated on given the party’s supposed focus.

Ofc, how didn’t I even consider ff7 in the literal post with title

Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year

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I’m not saying that technology and progress is bad nor that we should stop pursuing it.

I’m saying that progress that only benefits 1% or less of the people doesn’t interest me.

If your innovation cannot reasonably exist without economic bubbles and worker exploitation, then it doesn’t deserve to.

Even if we found the cure to cancer tomorrow but it was so expensive and restricted that maybe 1000 billionaires alone could afford it I literally wouldn’t care for it.

The cost for achieving all that is exploitation. It literally worsens the lives of many, so that few can taste the fruits of advancement. I’d rather we discovered that cure 20 years later if it meant that 99% of us had better quality of life.

The rich want the opposite and try convince you and me and everyone else that this is to the benefit of humankind because advancement happen faster with capitalism.

I have no sources on that. But even if they do, I simply don’t care about it. It doesn’t benefit me nor anyone I know.

It’s really bad yes. I’m no communist but I really think we should have had mixed economies and better tax policies to keep the rich in check. AI and other automation could have led to us working 20hrs a week on average while everything runs smooth, if used for the benefit of all.

Right now they have snowballed so much money and power and tech that I just can’t see how we can out of outside of revolts. Democracy has been corrupted almost everywhere and people are being manipulated into thinking other religions or immigrant are the problem.

There was a time we banned cloning to prevent the rich from making armies to exploit. But religion/ethics made that easy. We never considered doing the same with tech and important means of production.

Yeah great. Capitalist market without socialist values means the elite can overcome their handicaps and live long lives with a physical form sculpted to their wants.

Call me when it’s done without a metric tonne of exploitation.

I can imagine that haptic/soft vibrations could also be used to steer a blind person towards an object that needs more focus by the camera.

As you say, it has a lot of potential for accessibility and people with handicaps like that, but it’s not direction that tech, the economy, or the world itself is interested in right now…

The realistic answer IMO is that SSD should be the default with client overrides being available.

Yes consistency is important but if someone wants to do something weird, let them. Open software ecosystems should prioritize flexibility like that.

They have AA off because they recommend upscaling on literally everything. Upscaling sorta acts like AA and they are not used together.

You have (cyberpunk 2077), you just failed to comprehend it.

Platforms keep getting shittier and more exploitative, while government thirst for control with things like Chat Control, OSA and whatever the US is doing.

The more we see of that the easier it becomes to market a “your internet services in a box” to a layman.

Yup. I really wish we had an open source alternative to proxmox that used containers under the hood. Would make customizing and mounting external volumes much easier too.

We need a startup to just make and try to sorta standardize a mini pc product pre-installed with a proxmox-like setup with an easy web interface and self-hosted solutions pre installed. 5-10 apps for main internet service needs like email, social media, content hosting/publishing and personal media libraries.

Give it a cute name like “Web-Pal”, keep it open and Customizable for powerusers, watch the internet become a better place while you’re the household name for devices that are as essential as a router.

IT crowd heh. What a nerdy show.

I see, that’s fair.

I mean this respectfully, but that wasn’t an actual answer.

The idea is that we automate everything and the more we do the more we pass that productivity/efficiency down to people via UBI/wellfare/less working hours and when we hit star trek levels people are free run in fields, paint or just goon all day if they want to.

But we’re doing the opposite, creating bullshit jobs to keep busy and pretend capitalism is working while starving and driving to extinction everyone who is not significantly wealthy while elite brag about driving innovation and the future of mankind.