This is my view. I went the privacy route. The result is the addictiveness of the service went way down. For me, that’s a win.

There are other ways to give us content we might like. For example, have a list of topics and categories we can select. This reduces invasiveness while providing some benefit.

The problem is that does not give Google what it wants out of the relationship.

This is the way.

We’ve been able to survive for 200,000 years without any of this s***.

Preach!

I’m old enough to remember when none of this stuff existed. I have a threshold Beyond which I simply stop using the service.

I’m actually pretty close to my lifestyle from before 1995. I don’t have any cable I have basic internet I don’t do any of the Music Services. Video-wise I only have Prime and any free services I can get on Chromecast for TV. I’m getting close to my threshold with prime, as the annual fee is getting real high.

I’m already starting to lose interest in most YouTube channels. It’s not so bad here, really. I get to experience reality more.

No, but the fact you think that is telling. I’m saying it’s a wholevlot easier for Chinese to spy on Chinese. Just like it’s easier for Americans to spy on Americans.

How did you come to the conclusion I’m Communist out of that? Again, your assumptions are telling. Spend some time with a mirror.

Where does the racism enter the picture? This is about the civil war in China, in which the non-communists were driven out to Taiwan in 1949.

The Communists took the mainland and intend to finally destroy their enemies.kind of the way north Korea wants to take over south Korea.

So you don’t believe that Communist China could possibly get away with espionage against ethinic and cultural Chinese Taiwan?

Interesting.

You also don’t appear to consider the clear intention of Communist China’s plans to annex Taiwan.

Also interesting. Do you know the history behind the creation of Taiwan? If there was a “clear plan”, I would say it was ill conceived.

You assume too much, yourself. I think the point is the U.S. finally realized they were giving away critical technology to a nation that not so secretly plans to replace them.

Unfortunately, I think they were asleep too long, and China has enough knowledge to press forward without stealing from Americans.

Now, America must accept the fact they fucked up and have to compete as equals, which is much more difficult.

Matrix has too much metadata, i read, and XMPP so far does everything Matrix claims to do. I am sticking with XMPP (Jabber) for as long as i can, especially because it has proven itself over 20 years.

Yes. The FCC is part of the Executive branch, which is lead by the President, who appoints the leadership of the institutions that carry out the executive branch’s assigned job: enforce and execute the law.

Okay everybody - this is one of those good things that the Biden Administration and Democrats are doing to properly run government.

It is also something that most people will not know about. Why? Because it’s not a simple sound bite.

So my homework to all of us is to make sure our friends and Neighbors who are complaining about government not doing anything for us to point this and similar things out to them.

Real benefits, real work is almost never easily described in sound bites. So many people believe the Democrats don’t do what they say they’re going to do because getting s*** done is too complicated for most people.

Plus, it is idempotent, which means you don’t have to change it before pushing it to an existing infrastructure. If you do change it, the infrastructure will be updated to match. It ends the need for custom deployment scripts.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Give that man a cigar!

Control plus the ones who own the office space really, really need to make sure it’s being used or it looks bad on the quarterly finances.

Also, I have to admit there is validity to the benefits of in-person social interaction on certain aspects of productivity when teams are involved.

Humanity as tools.

Yep, the reality here is closer to yours. Of course right now one must earn 150k to be able to afford a house, costing on average $400k now for a small house) and most make less than 70k.

Note that I have never seen or met anyone who earns more than $160,000 as a developer. That is itself considered a huge sum of money here in the U.S.A. I am in the northeast, and it’s the same in the mid-Atlantic.

I think references to 300-600k pay is bullshit - a unicorn presented to make everyone outside the industry think we’re priveliged and have nothing to complain about. It’s a strawman, a convenient myth.

Sure. Let’s see… There’s this: Tech Layoffs Likely Pose No Deterrent to Record H-1B Visa Demand

Continued growth in H-1B registrations despite mass layoffs undermines the idea that the demand is based on labor shortages, said Ron Hira, an associate professor of political science at Howard University.

Tech workers willing to rake lower pay

This illustrates how widespread these layoffs are: More than 219,000 global tech workers have lost their jobs this year

In every other industry, hiring continues to be robust, yet pretty much the entire tech industry is in a depression. Why? Even the companies having “weak” earnings last quarter continue to do well financially.

Outsourcing hubs like India to bag 30% to 40% of jobs lost to tech layoffs

Big tech doubles down on union busting as labor movement intensifies

Thatsva tidy narrative there. Is there a correlary for the other 140k+ layofffs from the 2nd and 3rd tier tech companies that followed the lead?

Another tidy narrative is that these tech companies, besieged by pesky overworked employees who kept trying to unionize and demanding higher pay, decided to teach them who is in control.

Almost the same time all these “unnecessary” people were let go, these same companies ramped up their H1-b visa hires. Hmmmm, coincidence? Maaaaaayybe! It’s odd that some of these firings happened as unionization gained momentum. There was a time when that was illegal.