The 'DEAN' and his goons in this story is a classic example of a psychopath.
> The moment I entered the room, the Dean just started shouting at me.
> while we were leaving, the Security Officer saw my phone was recording.
and this is where all hell broke loose.
> one of the security guys just held me. and started being rough with me. like pushing me around and shit.
> Everyone was shouting at me, i felt like I was being harrassed at this point, and honestly, it's a little embarissing, but i just got overwhelmed. like with all this shit.
I started crying, literally balling my eyes out.
> Then the dean called me to his office. To his credit, like i guess seeing me cry and be so sad, the dean became really really nice.
> to the dean's credit, like half an hour later, he literally came to my room, to check up on me and that i was good. like that's really nice of him, he didnt have to do that.
Textbook case of abuse. Scream at a child who's smaller than you, don't let him get a word in edgeways, physically assault him when he attempts to hold you accountable, then when he finally crumbles, act all sweet and sugary like you've done him a favour.
The dean is the real asshole in this story. It's psychopathic abusers like that who need to be removed from educational institutions. Places where they can wield their power like a weapon, abusing it against people who they know can't fight back and give them what they really deserve.
It is literally forced upon you. If you are a fully grown adult, you have every right to use a device you own as you wish. But Apple and the ever-increasingly Orwellian UK government disagree. Your device is crippled until you consent to surveillance. You are forced to hand over your identity to be allowed to use the device you bought and paid for as you wish, and now your every move on that device is linked directly to you.
> But Apple and the ever-increasingly Orwellian UK government disagree.
You misplace your judgment on Apple. They didn't make the first move, they are responding to a government of a country they wish to continue operating in and made a business decision to start working on the feature and get ahead of it before governments start demanding they build the feature in specific ways (ie, the demand that Apple build a government backdoor, but turns out they can not be forced to build the government software, only be forced to turn over what they have). Building it first their way is actively doing something, it's controlling the implementation, while others seem to want to wait to be given specs by said government. It's happening either way. If you don't like it take the activism to the government, you know, the entity that is actually forcing this on people.
As an aside:
> You are forced to hand over your identity to be allowed to use the device you bought and paid for as you wish, and now your every move on that device is linked directly to you.
> Your device is crippled until you consent to surveillance.
For Apple devices it already was and you already have (sure, not if you are part of the small handful of people that never connect the device to telecoms or the internet or any networking, or use any apps other than preinstalled/offline jailbroken ones).But if the argument was in good faith, we know that is not how the majority of people use these devices.
> It is literally forced upon you.
It literally is not. You are not "forced" to do anything, no one is forced to buy or use the device. No one is "forced" to update iOS. There are alternatives, if you don't like the those alternatives and only want an updated current or new Apple device without age verification, well now you have a choice to make. Or make no choice, the choice is yours.
The AI model is likely trained on Stack Overflow posts, or otherwise related content from wherever off the internet, so most likely it will have ripped off enough hand-written posts or articles on how to quit Vim. So of course it can regurgitate the required keystrokes on command.
And will the writers of those posts, who contributed their knowledge to help out their fellow humans, get a fraction of a penny for the hundreds and thousands and millions of dollars of profit the AI corps are making off the backs of their labour? I somehow doubt it.
I wouldn't be surprised if a fair majority of them have been taught to see goto as nothing but a vestige of the 70s which should never be used under any circumstances except as a meme or to deliberately obfuscate code.
I have recently become quite fond of goto-based error handling and find it a lot cleaner and more readable than the if-else-mountains you otherwise end up with. I just make sure to leave a comment with a link to xkcd.com/292 so anyone else reading it knows I'm aware of what I'm doing. Now with this URL trick I can do both in one line. :)
Any time you want to sign up for any "open social" platform, you have to rush to claim your domain name. If someone else got there first, too bad. And that domain name applies to every app using this protocol. So no chance to claim it on another app, ever.
So what, exactly, is the difference between this and internet handles? In fact, isn't this worse?
I suppose the difference is that you only have to rush to claim your domain name (the DNS kind) once and then you get to use it for all "open social" platforms rather than doing that for your username on each platform.
> The moment I entered the room, the Dean just started shouting at me.
> while we were leaving, the Security Officer saw my phone was recording. and this is where all hell broke loose.
> one of the security guys just held me. and started being rough with me. like pushing me around and shit.
> Everyone was shouting at me, i felt like I was being harrassed at this point, and honestly, it's a little embarissing, but i just got overwhelmed. like with all this shit. I started crying, literally balling my eyes out.
> Then the dean called me to his office. To his credit, like i guess seeing me cry and be so sad, the dean became really really nice.
> to the dean's credit, like half an hour later, he literally came to my room, to check up on me and that i was good. like that's really nice of him, he didnt have to do that.
Textbook case of abuse. Scream at a child who's smaller than you, don't let him get a word in edgeways, physically assault him when he attempts to hold you accountable, then when he finally crumbles, act all sweet and sugary like you've done him a favour.
The dean is the real asshole in this story. It's psychopathic abusers like that who need to be removed from educational institutions. Places where they can wield their power like a weapon, abusing it against people who they know can't fight back and give them what they really deserve.