From the perspective of the people who make the crap, corporations are the users.

He got a hand-me-down iPhone because he’s poor, and has decided it’s better than no phone, but is sad it’s still a walled garden despite other people being rescued.

Is there a joke I’m missing?

New Guam, maybe.

Which version? If all you need is an uncoordinated, dopey person, I’m right here. /s

If undeath is required, no. It’s not even a concept that makes much sense without mind-body dualism, which is all but ruled out scientifically.

Well, that’s a bit of a salty tangent, but yeah, I guess they could take a class warfare sort of line on it. The other classical options are going full luddite, or just blaming a minority. Maybe they’ll come up with something new, because I have trouble picturing laid off creatives spouting any of these.

Right now, I think people are firmly in the denial stage. For whatever reason the thread isn’t federating properly for me, but on beehaw I can see others in here saying human exceptionalism stuff, which is kind of not in accordance with science.

Expect a lot more “white collar workers laid off due to AI” posts coming. I wonder how long it will take for a (very well resourced, those are status-y jobs) movement to form in response.

I second this one. CBT is the current scientific golden standard for when you’re your own enemy in general.

I’m annoyed that most of the answers are just “no”.

It’s actually a great question, but practical experience has shown that closed-source software is just as buggy when written, and only slightly harder for an attacker to figure out, but much much harder to fix. And that’s not even talking about deliberate anti-features, like every app that hoovers up your data and sells it so you can order a pizza.

I’d recommend one, but I’d probably just get it wrong.

There, the obvious joke has been made.

With that one, at least your parser should crap itself right around where the error is. You probably just need to search engine the error message, and find the page every other noob has to. Then it won’t take too long.

If your thing compiles but doesn’t work, then the real fun begins. You’re in the magical land of Turing completeness, where you hope the problem isn’t unsolvable in your case, because it definitely is in general.

That’s pretty much bang on.

You learn pretty fast that you’re an idiot and yes, you can write something, read it back many times, and still be wrong.

Really? Thermometer temperature, not windchill? Interesting. They’re only marketed as working down to that cold (with some variation) according to everything I’ve read. I’d be worried about damage any lower.

Let’s not go there, on second thought.

Unsafe… for our margins!

It is, though. The US isn’t the only place, nor is the Middle East. “African farmer can send kids to high school for first time” isn’t a splashy headline but it happens a lot.

I’d add the caveat that a lot of the common options are even worse. There’s at least encryption most of the time, in standard app operation.

Via Element or Signal would be the best answer (or was last I checked), if there’s was anybody else on there.

What should it be called?

If they can do it, they will. It’s ad dollars to them, as good as any others.

Don’t let them do it. Buy dumb electronics, or at least smart electronics you can use airgapped.

Good luck! Organising is hard work.

I can code or do errands, and am willing to help out a bit. I’m not sure how much time exactly I can devote to this, but if you’re stuck on something and can’t find anyone else to do it, I’m a good call. I might switch back to lemmy.sdf.org depending on how broken it stays, same username though.

An organised, easy way to do this would be great. Kind of like a test audience for FOSS.

Right now, people basically have to appoint and organise themselves as reviewer, which is a big ask.