This is a commonly repeated falsehood. “Robota” in Czech (and many slavic languages) means work. So it’s a worker at that.

Like misogynistic cowboys with laser guns.

I read first few stories from Asimov’s I, Robot, and, holy shit, his robots are pretty much stand-ins for slaves. They are property, get threatened with violence, are forbidden to be in the streets at night, and some models even address their owners as “master”. But none of that is addressed anywhere, it’s some convoluted logic puzzles instead. So I don’t know if author was oblivious or thought such things are OK because they are not humans (terrible slippery slope to go on).

This always gets brought up, and is the chicken-and-egg problem, but only sort of.

Supporting software designed for different platforms is not the phone’s responsibility. It should be the government and bank developers’ responsibility to build software for platforms their citizens and customers use.

Android and Apple do not jump through hoops to run Windows desktop software, for example, and the notion is kind of absurd to begin with. Yet this argument is used for Linux smartphones all the time.

Some of this also applies to people without phone / with dumbphone.

I know of:

• LineageOS
• LineageOS+microg (is its own thing)
• GrapheneOS - this is what I use
• eOS - shiny degoogled Android
• iodeOS - degoogled Android with some extra features and parental controls - might be something you want?

Some other Android-derived projects are inactive: DivestOS shut down, CalyxOS is paused.

For 3, I think it has to do with popularity, unlockability, and the chipset.

The risk is that people start treating AIs as if they were human

I cannot understand this. Unless AI is used to deceptively impersonate someone, how can a normal person treat “AI” as a human? The logo is right there, staring in your face. It only responds to prompts.

I have ran Synapse natively on 1 CPU 1GB RAM VPS for years. But it fills up a lot of disk space, eapecially with larger rooms, so get at least 100GB? (I had 20GB on my VPS, and with 4 regular users, was using up 15GB)

If you are looking at (new) official ESS Community, they recommend 2 CPU, 2GB RAM minimum for Kubernetes.

You see Ivan, birthday is for other people to eat, drink, and have fun, not for you.

Kinda like a big wedding in the US I guess? Bride and groom are not the ones having fun.

AFAICT restaurants were few, expensive, and difficult to get into (i.e. not for regular people on regular basis), and the option for regular people would be stolovaya (cafeteria?) which is simple, probably mediocre food.

So seems like if you don’t have the connections and want decent food, make it yourself.

This reads as vaguely anti-intellectualist.

I can’t imaging writing code by myself again

I don’t want to bother with readability, quality, or efficiency. Taking time to think is pointless.

The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.

Taking time to organize and write my thoughts is pointless. There are plenty of unpolished, incoherent ramblings on the internet, many with ill intent, that should not be given any value. (Yes, I understand that was not the intended meaning, but author should proofread)

Are they (post-)soviet boomers? There are some cultural things that I noticed too, some amusing, some frustrating.

• Home food is automatically better than restaurant food, as you said. Also, somehow, any burger is automatically viewed as McDonalds burger (i.e. bad)
• Undercooked food is unacceptable, triggering Americans who love their steak rare.
• Unsolicited advice and unprompted attempts to help.
• Insistence on getting you a gift or accepting a never-requested gift. “Here’s a nice thing, it was expensive and difficult to get, you should like it”.
• Viewing self as “a burden”. Being offered food, comfort, or accomodation is rejected because “I don’t want to impose”. Sometimes goes into “suffering builds character” mindset, which is nonsense.

Just to infuriate you more: Plastics originally were viewed as a great alternative to such waste - instead of ivory, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, expensive wood, you could use this human-made, often much stronger, material in different colors.

…and look where we are now.

From what I remember: France refused to join US war in Iraq in 2003, and around the same time I started hearing nonsense like “freedom fries” and “google french military victories and you get no results lolololol”, and it was all really fucking stupid. But some of that seemed to remain in popular culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-French_sentiment_in_the_United_States

Sounds pretty similar to US stereotypes towards Eastern Europeans, who are “always grumpy” and “rude”.

Edit: I stand corrected, see replies

(Not first-hand knowledge) I read somewhere that tonal languages such as Chinese make it difficult to express sarcasm the same way Indo-European languages do, with accent and inflection.

I use Sync in Firefox to sync favorites and site passwords, but outside of that, I usually start clean. Sometimes I need to manually copy notes, 2FA keys or such, but mostly I set things up as I need them.

After using iOS for around 3 years and going back to Android, Android has more simple, pragmatic and free apps.

I like droidify as a store for FOSS apps (comes with several repos enabled by default, including F-Droid and Izzy).

For the basics: Breezy Weather for weather, CoMaps for navigation, Markor or Fossify Notes for notes, Aegis for 2FA, Gadgetbridge for smartwatch.

As for launchers, people like Niagara, but it’s subscription for the pro version. Lawnchair is a classic-style customizable launcher. Other mainsteam apps are pretty much the same as iOS.

They have been heading in government-corporate direction for a while now. Good for them, yet from a perspective of a small server hoster, everything is more complicated now for no good reason.

(Official ESS requires Kubernetes and a dozen subdomains, third-party auth service is required to even register a plain username+password account, calls are all over the place between Element, Element X and web client)

Front page:

• Am I an asshole?
• Am I overreacting?
• Ragebait of all sorts.
• Pop culture.

Logged in, in a few dozen smaller subreddits:

• Chat, am I cooked?
• Same question as was asked yesterday. And the day before. Illiteracy.
• Is this good? (Screenshot of cheapest Amazon garbage you could find)
• AM I GONNA DIE? (from soldering fumes)
• We built this with AI
• And my favorite “I want something like (popular proprietary app), but free, open source, easy to use, and same number of users. Why hasn’t anyone made this?!”

Any FOSS / third party Spotify client I used already requires a premium account (I am fairly certain it’s about playing ads), so I was under assumption developer API was the same.

Anyway, I just stopped using Spotify altogether. I’ll support my local indie radio station instead.

For me it was the opposite: Every “made for you” mix and playlist is fairly popular songs from artists that I like… But they are always the same few dozen songs, just shuffled in different order.

Video suggestions seem to appear if/after you listen to podcasts or audiobooks. I had them, my partner did not.