He may be right that people self sensor to keep a clean image of themselves in the eyes of their peers, but Orwell did not live in a time of cell phones.
If you people still don't believe you're all under deep surveillance, after Assange and Snowden leaks, then you all are mentally ill.
We now know that this government is willing to subvert the first amendment by forcing shadowbans. Orwell's books doesn't come anywhere near what the current government does. Just because you all aren't in interment camps now doesn't mean they won't use the data they gather to be used against you in the future.
So now people that want to speak their minds are either censored by the sheep that downvote or the government that forces censorship.
Can we all please start building decentralized tools now.
Stop giving these crap companies power over you and your data. You don't know what they'll do with your data in the future (think George Orwell).
As we can see these companies can out of the blue force other companies to delete their old articles. There goes freedom of speech just to rank higher on a shi*y search engine that no one smart even uses (I use brave search). Then again, these companies kowtowing to Googl mainly write for the brainwashed sheep. I personally don't use any of their privacy invasive analytics on my blog.
Has anyone experimented with any Rust framework that implements Erlang's actor model in pure Rust? How well do they scale in distributed system? I know I've seen a few libraries such as:
Strange that you got downvoted for stating that people should have power to hold politicians accountable.
Look at the top comment and see how illogical it is:
> I'm happy to pay a premium and be locked into their walled garden for some things if it means supporting a company that has the power to shift policy in favor of human rights (privacy in this case).
Morons like this actually believe taking away human rights and privacy will make them safer. News flash, the danger are people in power that can't be held accountable. Lastly, be skeptical of anything Apple says as they work together with governments to take away your privacy. Psychopaths will say anything to get you to trust them.
Yes these companies use tricks to get you addicted to using their
low quality products for as long as possible and spending as much as possible.
But people fail to realize that the bigger issue resides in society. These
people are escaping reality to virtual spaces where they feel they have
power or have value.
Just look around you and you'll see what these people are escaping from. Churches
at every corner spewing out lies and hatred. Propaganda spewed out by governments
on the television. etc.
These people are searching for a safe space away from the cancer that is society. Prove me wrong.
When’s the last time you’ve been to a sermon? For every church I’ve been to, there’s an abundance of talk about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.
As for ‘spewing lies’, I suppose you can argue that, but I can assure you the pastor doesn’t believe he is lying. Religion is grounded in faith for a reason
> For every church I’ve been to, there’s an abundance of talk about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.
Denying that there's a problem is one of the reasons that people are being turned off from the church entirely. Yes, plenty of churches have resisted the tide of hatred and embraced inclusivity, and I commend them. But when I accompanied my father to church while visiting him, I was dismayed to find that the new pastor had laced the sermon with anti-gay fearmongering. That's not coming from nowhere, and it is abetted by people who want to believe that there is nothing amiss.
People would turn to games and other forms of escapism even if the governments were stable and honest and the churches preached only love and acceptance. Reality cannot compete with the sense of progress, exoticness, and control that games offer.
Why is everyone ok with ChatGPT scraping Reddit's data and selling it back to you for a $20/mo subscription, but cringe at the thought of Reddit making a profit from their API?
If anything the users creating the content should be the ones being paid.
Your neural nets (which are not intelligence) and 3rd party apps wouldn't work at all if normal people didn't take their time to post useful content.
I began my journey into functional programming a couple months back with Erlang. Interestingly this language helped me truly comprehend the functional like ways of Rust.
My only gripes would be that I've had to switch to Elixir as it's more developed for web development. I actually like the syntax of Erlang more (I don't come from Ruby) and it's a shame that they're split. Also, in Elixir, I attempted to write the fibonacci sequence using memoization and the solutions I saw online were horrendously ugly. Maybe it's because I'm still a beginner but I did see an example in Haskell and it looked so much cleaner.
I love how simple the actor model is and how it just works in Erlang. No ifs, ands, or buts.
If you people still don't believe you're all under deep surveillance, after Assange and Snowden leaks, then you all are mentally ill.
We now know that this government is willing to subvert the first amendment by forcing shadowbans. Orwell's books doesn't come anywhere near what the current government does. Just because you all aren't in interment camps now doesn't mean they won't use the data they gather to be used against you in the future.
So now people that want to speak their minds are either censored by the sheep that downvote or the government that forces censorship.