FreedomAdvocate

NEVER trust a VPN.

The only exception to this is IMO ones that have been proven in court to keep NO logs, like they claim. The only one I know of that has been tested is PrivateInternetAccess, which is why they're the only VPN I've used for like 10 years.

I feel like browser extensions are one of the worst things to have come to the internet in terms of security. People just install them like they're nothing, assuming they're safe and secure because they're on the extension store - not a terrible assumption for the average person, tbf.

Basically every single extension you install is like "hey give me access to everything you type and everything you click on and every site you visit, and I'll change every instance of the word "Elon" to "fElon" for you. Sound fair?", and everyone just goes "Hell yeah! Let's do it!".

but ultimately its putting an increased emphasis on ‘products’

Well yeah, it's Meta. I don't know why anyone would expect them to be doing anything less. Same with close sourcing their next models - of course that's the end goal. That's the end goal of every company that is making these things. They open source them and make them free until they have everyone locked in and can lock it down and start charging for it.

Additionally all labor is skilled labor.

No, it's not. When people use the term "unskilled" for jobs it doesn't mean "you literally have to have zero skills, not even the ability to user your hands, to do it" - it means you only need a limited skill set and is a job that has minimal economic value. Essentially it's a job that anyone at any stage could walk into and be able to do with minimal training.

That has always been how the skilled/unskilled labor gap has been broken up. You might not like it, but that's what it means. There is nothing about a server's role that makes it a "skilled" job that requires highly specialized skills that someone would have to go and get qualifications and study for. It's taking orders and carrying the orders out to people when someone else, often a skilled laborer like a chef for example, prepares them. Asking for drink orders and if everything is ok with the meal is not "skilled labor".

Anyway, all labor deserves a living wage. If you work a full week you should be able to support yourself comfortably.

Agreed 100%. Unfortunately COVID (and everything since, like the "renewable energy" push) and most countries' governments absolutely moronic handling of it has completely destroyed any hopes of this. Getting everyone from minimum wage workers upwards to be able to afford to "live comfortably" requires either a massive, massive recession with 50%+ deflation, or.........well there's really no other way. Maybe a UBI, and I wish more places would trial it, but apart from that there is no real solution that anyone has been able to suggest.

Did she have a portfolio that went beyond school work? Coders are like artists you need a portfolio showing you can do shit without being told to.

As a developer who has hired dozens of developers, you definitely don't. It makes no difference, especially in this day and age of AI being able to make websites and programs with ease.

That's what happens when everyone rushes to do the same qualification - you get too many people for that area of work. More graduates doesn't magically make more jobs - it just makes more people applying for the same amount of jobs.

The title and description and the tone of the article do not match what is actually being reported.

As the New York Times reports based on insider sources, Meta has announced internally that it will be splitting its AI division into four separate groups: one focused on research, one on so-called "superintelligence," one on products, and another on infrastructure.

A restructure to place all their newly hired AI people, who they were paying up to a billion dollars to join, into leadership positions in more defined divisions is not "crumbling into chaos" - in fact it's pretty much the opposite of "chaos".

Working fast food counters is "serving". You're taking orders and delivering food.

I'm sorry, but being a server is not a hard job. It's not a job that requires any extra skills. It's a job that pretty much anyone can do if they want to, hence the low pay, high turnover, and it being a "backup job" for people like struggling actors, uni students, etc.

Also can you please answer my questions?

1. You’re not seriously going to argue that a job that requires no qualifications or skills and is regularly done by children is a difficult job, are you?

2. Why do you think it’s not one of the most basic jobs that anyone can do?

A few things here.....

1. I've already played the game for 20+ hours. I loved almost every second of it, and some of the things I didn't have already been addressed. They're taking player feedback seriously.

2. Battlefield 6 is made by a whole new studio, not "EA DICE", helmed by one of the best in the history of the industry for these games - Vince Zampella.

3. Not everything by EA is bad, and anyone saying anything like that is immediately showing they shouldn't be listened to.

4. Again - I've already played the game via the beta. I know I'm going to have an absolute blast. I didn't like the last few BF games, so I didn't buy them. This one is a return to form from what everyone has seen and played.

5. You tell me to "cope away" while basing your entire opinion on a wikipedia article that's pretty much got nothing to do with the actual game that's being discussed lol. Who is "coping"?

This is a complete non-issue. The government contracts are over the last 20 years. This war has been going on for only the last few of those, and even then there is nothing saying that Israeli companies can’t get Australian government contracts.

Saying that they’re “funnelling taxpayer dollars” is disingenuous. They’ve been paying for services. They haven’t been doing it to oppress Gaza/Palestine. You don’t call paying Australian contractors for their services “funnelling taxpayer dollars”, so why do they here?

You disagree with what? That it's how you would get rid of tipping culture? Or that it's possible?