the problem is that any metric to exclude voters will be manipulated by politicians to exclude demographics. unless you can come up with a simpler concept than “every citizen over 18 can vote” people will move the goal posts: eg, if you require education, do private schools count? what happens if your school loses accreditation after you graduate? what if you’re home schooled? what if your parents didn’t let you goto school?

yeah, no, im with you on that point where frontend developers don’t care. but why did that framework catch on in the first place? we used to use php where the server would grab all the data relevant to your account and convert it into one html page. but now it seems the user’s laptop is tasked with pulling each element of their own website. maybe it’s easier to scale? like you can have the user’s data split across different servers and not require any communication between servers on the backend?

User is not in the pleaser file. This incident will be reported.

it’s frustrating because webpages were really functional without this problem a decade ago. i don’t know why links jump around today. is it because it’s cheaper to let the client figure out what content they need instead of using server-side computation?

yeah thinking of some of the ppl ive met on the internet, id rather be talking to a bot lol… jkjk

but i think finding out after the fact that i was interacting with a bot somehow seems soulless… like, something i like about the internet is the (small) feeling of still being connected to the world. and that’d be lost if i knew i was interacting with a bot. i imagine there’s people who feel differently, but i think that’s nuts. if im interacting with a bot, i want to know it.

also like, in responding to you, i hope to further some intelligent discussion and positively affect the world. if you’re a bot, then that’s hopeless. or maybe im just affecting the ai model positively, idk.

i always do “read;rm ./file” which gives me a second to confirm and also makes it so i don’t accidentally execute it out of my bash history with control-r

have you needed to use microG for any apps? is it a sufficient replacement for google play?

how do you know it’s not bots?

that could be it… I’ve just thought about it a lot and came up with a new theory.

it seems to me that the limitations of screen real estate seem surmountable. eg: a settings menu could have a search bar like in android, meaning your options can be accessible even though they’re buried in the gui. then, your settings could be “stable” and repeatable by adding flags like in google chrome (another gui program).

you can actually use chrome from a cli with selenium or the headless command (–headless) and I’ve used this to scrape websites locked behind Javascript. but average chrome users don’t demand the further development of these features.

yes, great example. also: when the creators of that program decide the want to redesign the ui, all of your tutorials on how to do things break.

my theory is that its not something inherent about using text instead of graphics: a maintainer of a cli program could also decide that they want to redesign the command line options. but its more that users of guis don’t demand stability or repeatability. they are impressed by a ui redesign and so that’s what they get.

i think one difference between guis and clis that people don’t think about is composability. you cant do something like “pipe the contents of a folder into vscode and do a regex find and replace” but that’s what pipes let you do on the command line. with gui programs, you always have to do these things manually… which is nice the first time but then time consuming each subsequent time.

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reddit is fine. i thought Tencent owned more of it but just googled it and it’s a pretty small percentage (11%). but i am worried that reddit will get worse soon and i want there to be an alternative. so I’m still using both.

Amazon’s delivery time is insane. I use other services like eBay for the most part, but when I need something fast idk who else to use besides Amazon.