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We really are going for full atomisation of the individual and erasure of human warmth and biological naivety aren't we. History is prehistory.

I don't subscribe to it and I think I can insulate myself from whatever technology driven horrors we uncover/create psychologically pretty well but it's not exactly great.


Numbers might be similar- but that doesn't mean the circumstances are.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-ayat...

Remember. The axis is quickly being diminished (venezuela), and the financial and water situations are far worse now, as is the political one (coming off of a war which destabilised leadership).

Just hope that it's not out of the frying pan and into the fire. I have a great appreciation of the everyday Iranian, and they deserve better.


Never was.

Maybe not for crypto, but they did spend a year or two surreptitiously installing their own VPN service on your Widows machine without any opt-out ability, and then failed to remove it, its Windows service, or multiple scheduled tasks once the brave uninstaller had been run.

The best part was this whole scam sitting as an unresolved issue on GitHub for months after they finally acknowledged it (after first denying it lol).

Closest browser I’ve seen to an actual virus in maybe ever.

And it’s a good lesson for developers that once you lose trust there are many of us who will never make the same mistake again purely out principle.



You can hide bat with one click as soon as you install brave

Linux distros won't host the code for the commercial bits. It doesn't matter if you can hide it, it's the fact that it's there at all

Yet they have no issue with Mozilla?

Mozilla does not have commercial bits. They do receive money from Google to be the default search engine, and the binaries they build report telemetry, but the versions found in Linux repos often either patch out the telemetry or disable it.

Most distros have a way of installing proprietary software via enabling additional repos after install.

And you can do that if you want with Brave

For technical users who are in the know, yes. I would not recommend Brave to less-technical friends and family knowing that they would surely be duped by some dark patterns in Brave's UI/UX.

Even Firefox, which is the best we have currently, surprises us a few times a year with questionable decisions. Still, it's what I recommend to people.


Spent a few months down in Hobart sussing out an antarctic science degree- really cool marine industry nexus down there with world leading research, all of the antarctic operations, and this stuff. Definitely the most nautical feeling city in Australia

The premise is that life stops being novel around 20 to suit this argument- but you can easily argue that that's more around 30 or even 40

Isn't the general principle sound? That novel experiences become rarer as we get older, leading subjective life to be highly skewed towards youth.

That's assuming novelty is the only way to live long subjectively. Is that a decent assumption? Personally I find subjective life longer if you just take your time, no pun intended.

Yeah sure. Here's one for the new year from a 57 years old:

There is always novelty if you stay curious. Boredom in your life will only start once you have become boring.

6-7 !!!

(who here also thinks the true meaning of 6-7 is reactive fear of 2026 & 2027 from the school-going crowd?)


Autopilot is a choice- most people are on it, some aren't. Society has always been like this. Society is attacking self aware and fully conscious people more than ever now though :(

Everybody, looks like we got one. Attack!

Paranoid people sometimes perceive normal levels of apathy and friction in society as intentional attacks.

Getting closer to the well documented amphibious UAP drone I guess..


Sign of the times


I love market consolidation


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