It's a win-win situation. Either pirates win or Meta loses.

Ordinary piracy would still be illegal since it's not for AI training.

They will never pay this without a fight.

Good time to specialize in "tariff litigation", if you're a law firm.

Quoting your comment: "You definitely don't want to hire the person who thinks - bizarrely - that using library functions is a sign of weakness."

So true...I've failed interviews, because the interviewee did see using library functions as a sign of weakness.

I just wish that in those cases the interviewee gives feedback and allows you to rewrite instead of just failing you. I mean in practice nobody writes library functions themselves unless absolutely necessary, but I get that for some positions you have to demonstrate that you can write lower-level code if you have to.

I think that it was probably a poorly designed question, but surely you could throw the interviewer a bone by giving a custom answer after they reject the library.

My employer has no formal titles for engineers pretty much for this reason.

> We also don't engage in mass surveillance

What?

It's not extremism. It's plain old American capitalism.

Both parties are being funded by the same people, so both parties play ball with the same set of funders.

Conspiracist nonsense. Like, this could hypothetically explain a few things for a few industries where both parties somewhat align, but in general this is populist slop.

Its very obvious, imo they are going to have a hard time signing young men up to fight for this country when they inevitably make everyone so poor they beg anything, even a war.

But...

They'll use profits and greed to alienate the working class further and further, they'll try to get us to go fight wars to capture resources for the KKKapital owners. My prediction is the only war the American people will be willing to sign up to fight, is against those same KKKapital owners.

Probably explains why they love bunkers so much, for the case where this whole experiment backfires on them.

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” ― Ulysses S. Grant

You're only one year and change into it. It takes longer than that for most people to become anywhere near proficient at it.

I've found the AI assisted auto-completion to be very valuable. It's definitely sped up my coding and reduced the number of errors I make.

It reduces the context switching between coding and referencing docs quite a bit.

Have you read my comment or are you a bot?

There's nothing surprising about it given US history.

The US administration has always labeled any resistance against it as terrorism at least ever since 9/11. You might remember the justification of killing young Afghani males, who were posthumously labelled as terrorists. They drone strike an apartment complex and report 25 dead terrorists, conveniently omitting to report on dead children or women, because there were 25 males between the age of 15 - 25 among the dead. No evidence of terrorist activity required.

The only change is that the same justification is now being used within the US borders.

The dead are still, however, The Other, which is how it's being justified now as it was when the dead were foreigners in a war zone.

Since before then, as well.

think of ELF/Earth First in the 90s with "ecoterrorism"... plenty of stops between that and, say, the Haymarket affair. Or hell, much of the anti-indigenous genocide could probably be described using the term "counter-insurgency", which is closely related to how the US gov. thinks of terrorism.

This right here exposes the bullshittery about the reasons behind preventing sideloading on Android phones.

For Google everything is about protecting revenue, even when doing so exposes their users to real harm, and that's why they will not address the issue of copycat apps, poor practices on play store security or anything else that lowers the number of downloads on apps on play store. But, heaven forbid, I want to download an app that doesn't create revenue for them onto a phone I OWN, Google spends money lavishly.

The Internet cranks are right. Google is run by bean counters and all the invective the cranks heap on the Google leadership is entirely earned.

Right. Or, the way I might put it, you could have set up a system that empowers trusted alternative distributors so that you're not killing F-Droid.