They’d rather unalive us all than miss out on profits.

That’s like eating exactly one potato chip.

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Why do people buy organic fruits and vegetables?

I care about where the code comes from. I like the community to come together on a good solution rather than have one spat out of unknown quality. I want to both test and have that community working together towards a common goal. Fundamentally, I think that sharing our answers and cataloguing them as developers is a good strategy. Way better than AI.

If AI is ultimately borrowing its answers from open source, wouldn’t it be better to just go use open source? At least then there’s some hope that if people find issues and edge cases that I might get those fixes in the future. Why limit your upside to zero? Like, I can put my entire program in one source file maintained by just me but it doesn’t mean I should. Is this an argument against why libraries are a good idea?

The behavior is actively endorsed by the platform.

Using a password management scheme of some kind does not optional. You cannot trust them with what’s effectively a master password.

Maybe, in a perverse way, they aren’t all that different in the extreme. If I were a billionaire, I can take loans out against my securities basically forever. Governments can sustain a growing debt load forever if it grows more slowly than GDP.

Alas, I am not a billionaire.

Tbf, this post is a shower thought comparing governments to parents. Governments aren’t individuals.

It’s detectors all the way down.

But of course, as a tortoise, you would know that.

Don’t forget debt. I have to have an emergency fund but you just print money and spend it like there’s no tomorrow for years on end?

I have a brilliant friend who works there. However, only projects that integrate AI are really getting approved.

Not if I use AI to hide my use of AI first!

Enforcing that ban is going to be difficult.

Don’t forget the random explosive barrel.

I just hope more open phones like the rumored Graphene phone with actually good high-end hardware are out by then so I can leave their ecosystem comfortably. As you wrote, Google has a history of abusive behavior and doing what they want anyway.

Interesting! I learned a new word. And yes, look to Google Chrome’s walking back of blocking ad-blockers to its eventually implementation anyway once people stopped screaming about it.

That’s the problem; handset makers don’t believe you own the phone. They think it’s their phone that you’re paying to use temporarily.

I have family members who can’t change their phone wallpaper through the GUI. Your standards are far too high!

Google has far too much power. We should not be subject to the whims of a company that does not and cannot have our best interests at heart. For this reason, my next phone will be a Fairphone or, I hope, the new Graphene phone when it comes out late next year.

I aspire to one day be as knowledgeable and well-rounded in computing as he.