Oh god, I feel sorry for these employees. It’s so disgusting and inhumane to just think about somebody being forced to smile and judged by how good they do that, by a machine!
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stonekyx commented on Japan chain uses AI to gauge staff smiles, speech tones in QoS push scmp.com/news/people-cult... · Posted by u/gnabgib
stonekyx commented on Xi, Putin Score Wins as More Asia Leaders Aim to Join BRICS bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ganeshkrishnan
Framing this in terms of “Xi” and “Putin” is myopic. My home country of Bangladesh is eager to join BRICS: https://www.bssnews.net/news/193064. The support for doing so is not based on some “NATO versus Russia and China” calculus. It’s more that they are looking out for their own interests, and just don’t care about west’s ideological fixations. China invests in Bangladesh, Russia built a nuclear plant there, and the US is nowhere to be seen. Moreover, China is just looking for ROI and won’t intrude on your domestic politics like the US.
As the locus of power moves to China, moreover, there is less motivation to side with the US. China is leading in areas like nuclear power and batteries, while the US is at the forefront of lobotomizing its population with social media.
> while the US is at the forefront of lobotomizing its population with social media
I have to point out that China is, too.
No country is "just looking for ROI", and even if they are, that's not necessarily a good thing.
stonekyx commented on Taking away iPhone made daughter a better person theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/hackerbeat
> Now, we ask kids to define themselves completely, wholly, all at once, finally, in front of everyone. Got broken up with? It was pretty hard to tell someone in the 90s their lives weren't over, but it's impossible now. There is an (apparently) permanent record of all your failures and lack of successes.
For what it's worth, none of this has been my experience at all. I'm not even really sure what the first sentence means exactly.
I think what it meant is that, in the social networks today, you have to behave “consistently” all the time. If you wrote something today and then say the opposite tomorrow, people online would probably attack you for being untrustworthy or something like that, and refuse to accept your points. But in reality, nobody can be consistent all the time. We’re all different from minute to minute, and it’s perfectly natural to change your opinions however often you want.
The CCP newspaper report on this is… Interesting:
> Faced with such a "hard nut", Li Chengming strengthened his confidence: "In the war years, Communists were not afraid of death. This difficulty is nothing! We must do it! And we must do it beautifully!" Under the guidance of veteran experts, he led his team to fight for a thousand years. Over many days and nights, a set of nonlinear confidentiality processing technology for topographic maps suitable for national series of scales was developed.
https://archive.ph/20110804185923/http://cxzy.people.com.cn/...
Lol, typical Chinese propaganda speech I'd say. But just to be fair,
> he led his team to fight for a thousand years
The page you linked to actually said "more than a thousand days and nights", not years.
It's not really doing that though. Nc+head/cut/grep are and youtube-dl is grabbing the data. Bash in this case is just orchestrating the order of communication between the tools doing the actual work, as a normal Bash script.
The post is about doing all of this in pure bash builtins like /dev/tcp and bash functions. Not about gluing together tools which do the work.
Even the post isn't using /dev/tcp, but compiled a C file into bash "loadable builtin" (which is something I learned today). It still feels kind of cheating to me tbh.. But cool enough!
stonekyx commented on Bram Moolenaar has died groups.google.com/g/vim_a... · Posted by u/wufocaculura
The very first time in life that I reported a bug to an OSS project was to Vim, by email to Bram, when I was in high school. Thinking back from now, that was definitely not a good way to report bugs, but Bram was super helpful and responded kindly to this ignorant kid.
Thank you Bram, and RIP.
stonekyx commented on ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails jfloren.net/b/2023/7/7/0... · Posted by u/floren
> This appears to be related to a behaviour that ProtonMail has of dropping all plaintext email if any mime-encoded parts exist.
https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/issues/26#issuec...
I'm actually more shocked knowing that they drop plain text if there is a mime-encoded part (e.g. HTML). Just verified that all mails imported from GMail and all newer mails I received in PM only have the HTML part now, while GMail shows both HTML and plain text parts in message source. Great, now if I want to use a text-only client to read those mails in the future, I won't be able to.
Now I honestly wonder, how did they think this is something okay to mess up? Is there just no usable email hosting service for someone that want their mails not touched and also stored securely? Like, this is not even going to save storage space for PM - I'm paying for my storage.
stonekyx commented on I Moved My Gmail to Proton. It Was Surprisingly Easy washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/andrewl
I would never trust proton mail
https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-g...
I’m interested in what you use for mail service. Self hosting?
The solution was impressive and fascinating, regardless.