Absolutely not.

Every time I hear a junior developer say we should rewrite something they have made 0.1 effort understanding, I thank the JS world for not giving a generation or two of developers a well thought out application development framework.

You lost me at shitting on legacy code. My brother in Tux, we don’t rewrite code willy-nilly in the FOSS world either and for a good reason. New code always means new bugs. A shit ton of the underlying code in your Linux OS was written one or more decades ago.

This is because employees in South Korea can “only” work a maximum of 52 hours per week, including twelve hours of overtime. As a result, employees often have to leave work and go home even when important tasks have not yet been completed. For this reason, key employees of the Exynos team are reported to have worked unpaid overtime more and more frequently over the past few years, with the extra hours going unrecorded.

Why is SK’s birth rate in the shitter.

Given everything we’ve seen over theast little while, including the process of non-profits getting taken over by their VC funded subsidiaries; that difference you see is almost certainly a matter of being at a different point in their respective profit timelines.

The author explains in the thread and has links to further info.

Bluesky funding

Yup, it’s old news.

Don’t get used to it. Pipsqueak is coming with the ax.

The only thing that would have made this perfect would be a rose and a candle next to the raccoon. #DeadRaccoonTO

It’s a trap.

- A message from Canada

I vomit in my mouth every time I see these dumbasses.

Try to come up with a reasonable process for transitioning between the thresholds or stop pretending you’re interested in anything but proving your point.

Agreed. I’ve grown up with the development of the WWW and where we are today is completely different than where we used to be in the 90s and 2000s. The consolidation, universal access and the profit maximization via rage farming has put societies globally in an unprecedentedly precarious position. This isn’t your uncle’s Internet anymore. It’s a hyper-personalized engagement-maximizing corporate experience for all but a small fraction of people who were lucky enough to escape it. Anyone feeling I’m overreacting should spend an hour with their old account on Facebook.

To the “can’t enforce this because it can be circumvented” argument - this is missing the point of most laws. The intention is to apply to the majority, not to be foolproof. Getting most to stop a harmful behavior already gets us most of the benefits. We can never stop everyone.

Number of users is an obvious example. There are others.

This is straight up standard right wing propaganda. A much simpler explanation is that the platforms are feeding people false realities for profit. Rage gets the most engagement. Right wing propaganda works extremely well for that and as an added benefit it produces cohorts who vote in the interest of the platform owners. It’s a twofer.

You tap search on the home screen, you get the Google app.

From the article:

In return for the promise of two chickens in every pot, and deporting millions of migrants, the majority of voters were prepared to look the other way on what used to be core American values. They shrugged off the rule of law, freedom of the press, support for democracy at home and abroad, and basic civility in the nation’s public discourse.

From FDR:

“Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations, not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership,”

…

“Finally, in desperation, they chose to sacrifice liberty in the hope of getting something to eat.”

If we’re to fight disinformation, we don’t need to get anywhere close to banning it altogether. Killing app access from the app stores is going to cut off almost all access to it. The point wouldn’t be to go after everyone who’s smart enough to sideload an app or use VPN to circumvent a block. It’s to remove it from the daily media diet of most Canadians.