That's a bummer.
Readit Newselforce002 commented on The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter micronews.debian.org/2025... · Posted by u/edward
Adblock and Sponsorblock. Haven't seen one ad in forever. Also works on the TV.
I made it he mistake of using the yt app and I wanted to throw the phone away. Never again.
elforce002 commented on Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children? · Posted by u/justneedaname
I have a kid (5~8 range) and what we did was to limit PC consumption, avoid getting our kid a tablet and cellphone. It has been really good and my kid still has his/her innocence intact. Hopefully this will continue until adolescence. We're also trying to put the kid in different outdoor activities as well as playing with him/her (chess, uno, etc...). It's not easy, but is doable.
elforce002 commented on How to delete your Facebook account theverge.com/22231495/del... · Posted by u/battle-racket
I deleted my FB account six years ago, and I don't miss it. I use Twitter, Reddit, and occasionally IG (I don't post anything there).
elforce002 commented on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? · Posted by u/throwaway_43793
you do realize that these so called "one-off" AI programs would need to be maintained? Most people paying for Saas are paying for the support/maintenance rather than features, which AI can't handle. No one will want to replace any Saas they depend on with a poorly generated variant that they want to maintain
You can go further: Which business will bet its entire existence, let alone finances, to an "AI" (Companies are literally writing "don't rely on X LLM outputs as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice"?
elforce002 commented on Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite" economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/tosh
Let's not forget the social numbers.
Reuters:
BUENOS AIRES, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Argentina's poverty rate rocketed to 52.9% in the first half of 2024, the government's INDEC statistics agency said on Thursday, surging from 40.1% a year earlier.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-poverty-rat...
He explained that on Lex Fridman's podcast.
elforce002 commented on 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day bsky.app/profile/bsky.app... · Posted by u/davidbarker
> lots of echo chambers getting created
And X transforming into a right-wing one.
> nothing will change for the rest of the world and each one will capture what the other side said and post it on the platform
Network effects almost guarantee each country will choose one. My guess is Europe will migrate away from X, mostly, while South America mirrors our left/right split.
This is interesting. We know twitter was left-wing all the way to the top and after Elon took and put both sides on equal footing, it suddenly became right-wing? C'mon man. Media is run by the left.
The EU is increasingly trying to suppress dissenting voices on one side of the aisle. We'll see how long people will put off with that before things get out of control.
South America is starting to divide itself between socialism (Venezuela, Bolivia, etc...) and center-right ideas (Argentina, El salvador). Time will tell.
elforce002 commented on 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day bsky.app/profile/bsky.app... · Posted by u/davidbarker
> the important people will mostly stay, and they will attract back the people who leave
Important people on the left (broadly, not just lefties) are starting to leave. I think Kara Swisher just deleted her Twitter and migrated to Threads.
What I'm seeing here is lots of echo chambers getting created as we speak. Threads, bluesky, etc... I don't use Threads because I don't use Instagram that much. Everyone will have their safe space and the world will continue without any issues whatsoever. Heck, there are countries where Facebook is the "internet". Other than the left (US, UK, Canada?) posting on any of those platforms, nothing will change for the rest of the world and each one will capture what the other side said and post it on the platform.
elforce002 commented on 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day bsky.app/profile/bsky.app... · Posted by u/davidbarker
He bans journalists and others who criticise him. Why do you think he is committed to free speech, rather than speech he likes?
Who did he ban?
At WWDC24, we shared a session on embedded Swift, which is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqxbsADqDI4
More documentation on embedded Swift tooling here: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/main/docs/EmbeddedSw...
(Disclosure: I work at Apple.)