kennysoona

It is when it's based purely on physical appearance in the context of evaluating job applicants.

> We shall not copy everything from America.

You should copy not needing photos on CVs. Doing so introduces an unacceptable risk of bias.

> It's like if a car manufacturer could decide exactly the date at which will stop using the car, no matter how many miles you put on it or how useful it is to you in the current situation.

That's why I think it should be regulated, and don't find the arguments about stifling innovation to ever be convincing.

My approach is to have a hidden OS. Either via a hidden bootmenu, or better yet transparently boot into a virtualized guest by default. With secure boot and encryption, things can be made hard for anyone to actually examine the drive out of the limited context provided. Requests for more access can be met with confusion and feigning technical ignorance.

> Also, it's weird that the former lead developer has a VTuber sockpuppet that he pretends is a separate project member

What is the actual proof of that?

> Apple in its infinite wisdom does not let you change the default epub reader on iOS/iPadOS.

Stuff like that is why I can never use Apple products. It's my device, not theirs; I own it, I'm not renting it. Let me do what I want with it. Or be honest and rent it out to people instead.

> all Apple really has going for their products these days is being very stable and dependable,

That's not Apple that's everyone. Computers randomly crashing hasn't been a thing for a long time.

> I still spent weeks this year trying to sort out what magic combination of alsa, and pipewire and pulse-audio and wireplumber setting, configs and launch timings would get HDMI audio to not come up muted on a mini PC with integrated Radeon graphics in Ubuntu.

This sounds very much like an edge case. Why didn't you use Windows or MacOS on the mini PC instead? Was it because you were unable to do so?

> Or how about the huge fight that systemd has been (and continues to be).

That fight was over pretty much when Devuan and Artix formed.

> If we imagine a world where os init was regulated by the EU,

The EU would only be interested in regulating this if it were an OS init controlled by a monopoly abusing their position.

> What you can't do is having a Musk style temper tantrum and fire someone at will because you feel like that.

What about if you just don't feel they are a good fit anymore, even if you can't show why based purely on numbers.

Is any amount of advance notice sufficient to allow that?

It's about not putting your data in the hands of a US company.

Collaboration can be managed by offline servers that facilitate that. Not everything needs to be in a web page.

I think dogs like Chaser show in general the upper limit for dogs, at least demonstrated so far, is much higher than that of pigs.

It can be hard to compare the two since we can't compare their intelligence overall as one thing, but have to compare specific subsets, showing dogs and pigs are intelligent in different ways.

I think any claim that one is outright more intelligent than the other is dubious.

That's very fair, I've certainly tinkered with stuff for the fun of it when there were easier or more suitable alternatives.

> I'm not sure how many pigs have had their intelligence evaluated.

The point is when intelligence of animals is evaluated like this, it's evaluated in very limited scopes, e.g. arithmetic abilities, mental time travel capabilities, abstract thinking capabilities, etc.

To generalize the results from one limited scope test to intelligence in general is flawed and wrong.

> The experimental evidence seems to indicate that pigs are probably smarter than dogs.

It indicates nothing of the sort.

> Pigs are thought to be closer to toddlers in intelligence

You're making a common mistake here, in conflating pigs being compatible with toddlers based on a very limited scope test, with being comparable to toddlers in general, which they are not remotely close to being.

Pigs are comparable to dogs, but dogs are much more impressive overall. Lookup dogs like Chaser, for example, and show me a pig that has ever come close.