Obviously we are facing a population crisis, and we will need more bodies for the factories and retirement homes. Or at least this was the idea in the 1800s. We might have morally coated it with religion, but biopower is a real thing.

The current hypothesis is that the ever evolving LGBTQ+ is a way to sell niche products to these groups. You can imagine that with every new gender, there is a facebook ad and amazon order to be sold.

I don't really believe this, I'm an anti-realist and I think continental philosophy is BS... but this is a classic. Also, there are sooo many ways our sexual taboos are all about economics. Once you see it, you cant unsee.

I ended up just buying a VPS, putting openclaw on it, and letting it Postgres my app.

I feel like this article is outdated since the invention of OpenClaw/Claude Opus level AI Agents. The difficulty is no longer programming.

Video games on F-Droid are how Android games should be. They have the spirt: No ads, no micro transactions, etc..

Kids educational games are the same. I have been using those games only for years and I've had 0 issues. Playstore games, you get an update and now your progress is frozen unless you pay.

Guitar tuner? same

File explorer, image viewer, etc... Same

Everything: same

Anyway, I did my part, basically I only use FDroid. I filled this out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITk...

>Combat astroturfing: when you encounter suspect posts on community forums and social media in support of the policy (“Well, actually…”), challenge them and do not be shy.

Someone contact Dang, because this is now allowed. I have been suspicious HN has actively supported astroturfers over the years for some sort of financial or mutually beneficial gain.

Anyway I basically changed to web apps. They are much easier to deal with and develop.

'Cool demo' -> Doesnt convert to tangible things.

Wont attempt to compete with companies better than them, but go their own route. "oh look it consumes low power!" (Things no one cared about).

They are the Nintendo of tech.

What we should encourage are people to simplify with AI.

There was that literal 9 page rant by the other day and people had no idea what he was trying to say (too technical language, a poor writer, and seemingly unedited). That could have benefited greatly.

I remember being excited when Apple got widgets because then I could add my 'Next Alarm time' to my home screen. Made my company work phone usable on trips.

I wonder when they are going to get NVIDIA cards or CUDA? Then they can actually run LLMs and not just trick people into buying it under the 30 year old idea of 'Unified Memory'.

Uh..... Do you know about AI Agents? Claude Opus?

Dont judge AI on the instant chatGPT model.

The teacher doesnt read, they skim, and they already know who deserves As or Ds.

I was a victim of this. I was a general A or B student, but I thought the funny kids (D students) were funny and hung out with them. I got stereotype graded. My last paper of the year I completely gave up, the least effort ever. Teacher gave me an A and said 'You improved so much!'

Also, we need to treat schools like they are daycare. K12 didnt stop getting Trump elected (pre-AI).

We really need a different kind of school system. Daycare(current teachers) and education(a new group of teachers, probably professionals).

But really its the city tax. I wonder if you can Delaware your LLC or something to avoid it.

But the city tax? Oof