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@thomasfuchs The kids really do make me proud sometimes.

@nazokiyoubinbou @FifiSch @grote and my response is that's only comforting to those who are already confident in their ability to complete the task at hand. If this is your first time, you have no clue what "something really stupid" looks like, or what happens when that occurs.

@nazokiyoubinbou @FifiSch @grote You said you don't understand why the process of installing a new OS on your phone is so scary for the average user? I was responding to that part - it's scary because if you fuck it up, the only way through it is to not fuck it up.

@nazokiyoubinbou @FifiSch @grote

you can just flash again

Look that is comforting to someone who knows they can flash their phone. For someone who is doing it for the first time with exactly one device, that's essentially saying "If you find you do not have what it takes to do this, you can just do the thing you found you could not do to fix the mess you made!"

That is NOT going to be comforting to those who need that comfort.

@nazokiyoubinbou @FifiSch @grote Consider the failure state. If a user fails to set up installing outside programs, they can still use their phone and make calls. If a user fails to install a new OS, they have no phone until they succeed.

@campuscodi Okay I see TWO problems here and ONE was acknowledges.

700 times in 5 days us a lot of visits. If this is "light", then this is an admission of DDOS risk.

@codinghorror We can and have taxed the wealthy before. It was highly successful. We do not do so today, but have several proposals (improved capital gains tax, for example) that address this. We also have states beginning to implement additional taxes on those with high income. (See Washington State's "Millionair Tax")

The challenge is that it's a political fight to get these established - more so since Citizens United.

Also... the programs being crap is not because they need to be complex. If it were, we would not be having a social security crisis. They are crap because we give poor people crap.

If you have ever sampled procucts across the spectrum, you might notice how anything directed at poor people is full of advertisements, scams and upselling. This is considered lucrative, even though we are selling services to individuals who cannot afford the bells and whistles.

We specifically design benches to be uncomfortable. There was even a toilet designed to be uncomfortable.

But this is about government services, not just what we find acceptable.

So to bring us back, I need to call out how much scruteny poor people are under to prove their poorness is not a moral failing instead of the fact they are paid less than enough to meet the poverty line - a line chosen to describe not "Who has enough", but instead "Who is literally starving".

And why? Because of the "Welfare Queen Myth".

So no. I do not trust us with any means testing. I will not until we fix existing means testing.

@passwordsarehard4 @codinghorror Did you mean AGI or UBI? AGI is an AI thing.

AGI is not needed to prevent people from struggling due to being less intelegent. We have plenty of tools and strategies for that already. We just have to decide as a society that we want to actually take care of each other.

@codinghorror

we have to deal with things like "scarcity," "incentives," and "math."

I would argue the big economic problem we are having right now is that "Scarcity" itself is breaking down. While it still technically exists, we can call things out like "Labor" where a lack of scarcity means providers of that product are struggling, and products like "food" where scarcity has been artificially injected.

With Scarcity breaking down, "Incentives" get weird, and the math runs models that don't reflect reality.

GMI avoids this by slowly phasing out the benefit as you earn more,

Unemployment and foodstamps are supposed to do that. When you look at how those worked out, the answer is not well. Putting in the effort to earn money causes those who rely on said benefits to have less resources instead of more. I would not advise adding another system with the same mechanics until we fix the existing ones.

UBI is also inflationary.

Question: Do we fucking care at this point? People could earn less on average and prices will STILL GO UP. Prices go up! That is what they do!

The only way around that is more competition in the markets, which will not happen unless we make it easier and safer to put your time and energy into new companies. This is a place where "Inscentives" have been working against us - people are inscentivised to work for existing companies rather than try their own.

Specific Support: Focusing on the disabled, the elderly, and families with children -- the groups who truly cannot work and need the most help. And GMI can help them get back to work.

I am not saying specific support is not good. I am saying we have existing programs for these people, and these people still struggle because these programs are designed like crap, and then that crap is not experiences by people like us because we don't rely on the programs, allowing said programs to be even more crap.

One advantage of UBI is that... everyone would experience it. The cost of acquiring it. The overhead of filing for it. The benefits of living on it.

And it doesn't start costing you $1.50 for every dolar you earn, with sudden drops as you hit a point where your efforts to put food on the table mean suddenly you lose childcare and have to figure out what you have to cut to be able to both feed your family and care for them.

not in the mailboxes of the wealthy

Imo the easist way to resolve that is to tax the wealthy appropriately. They can have their monthly state money and pay it back with their anual taxes. Less overhead to do it that way, and it means if they fall on hard times... then that's just whatever.

@_elena You ever think about how much more rare they are because we pick them?

@JessTheUnstill @foolishowl @CordiallyChloe But do not dare formulate an understanding of the religious texts.

@JessTheUnstill @foolishowl @CordiallyChloe Nah, video games are forbidden.

Honestly if my inaccurate highschool experience is to be believed, they want kids doing homework until their designated Sports Time. Then go back to homework.

@briankrebs that sounds more like part of shadow-IT than a new version of it.

@drikanis @Em0nM4stodon Which... ironically gives us an opportunity.

We can turn this into a hell of a scarry "Hell No" for any company considering this. Bonus points if we set up offramps for the social medias we know will pull this.

@siguza @Em0nM4stodon Hopefully, "time" is an ingredient we can use well.

@Dio9sys Okay so this is more "Someone buying file storage and runtime to run this operation" than "tencent is running cryptominers"

@Dio9sys Not finished reading but

The c2c subdomain is an nginx server on ubuntu on a server in japan, per URLScan. I was curious what the top level domain looked like, so I tried www as well. Turns out their www is in a tencent datacenter in singapore. Neat!

Tencent is that company that buys games from indie developers

That seems forboding...

@ix9 @Tutanota To explain it in a non-tech way:

Imagine you had a letter and a friend you want to send it to. I want to read your letter.

The envelope can only be opened by your friend.

This sounds safe, right?

Well, if I can install a camera on your shoulder (yes I consider it that invasive), I can read the letter either as you write it, or as your friend recieves it.

Chat control is the camera. The envelope is E2EE.

@SecurityWriter Being clear here: this is the time to say "Yeah. We are valuble. But also, let us NEVER let this kind of shit happen again. No producing this style of code. No consuming it. We establish a code of ethics, and anyone we outsource to must be included in this."

@SecurityWriter Okay the time to trade union is now.