The difference is that, in the west, there's an acceptable counter narrative. I can tell you that Ruby Ridge and Waco never should've happened and were examples of government overreach and massacre of it's own citizens. Or <insert pet issue with the government here>
What's actually going on here is the Unix Philosophy applied to more and more platforms.
Previously, if you wanted to rig up a screen recording app in a few minutes you'd use Linux and specifically one of the minimal desktop environments like i3 or sway. Then you'd wire up a few command line utilities (slurp, wf-recorder, etc) and get the exact experience you want. These small unix tools allowed the greater ecosystem to just cobble together what they wanted without too much hassle. I've done exactly this!
This is the exact mindset that keeps people away. They'd prefer to NOT maintain their own video recording software THANK YOU VERY MUCH. So you get people who go to Mac OS because there's always a slick solution for a couple bucks and you never have to be TOO fiddly.
This doesn't destroy the market for people in the latter camp, but it DOES open up the market for people in the former.
You've been dealing with the wrong folks then because all Christians should believe what James says when we says
James 2:14-20, 26 (NET) What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,
and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?
So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.
You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that – and tremble with fear.
But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
I think this is the point being made: your 'should', and by extension your quote, has no meaning when grace is defined as the single goal of spiritual life, and then is reduced to a simple transaction.
Sure, people are free to believe whatever. I am quoting the very scripture they claim to believe though and so it would be hypocritical to do otherwise
The term we have for those folks is that they're doing "easy-believism" and it's broadly a pitfall within Christianity. It's not considered normative to so heavily lean on grace in the way that you're describing
Nah, this is just the No True Scotsman fallacy. San Francisco is FAR more left in their politics than most of the nation. For example, the new mayor described himself as:
> As a lifelong Democrat and San Franciscan, I am running for mayor to turn around the city I love
London Breed, the mayor before, was endorsed by explicitly Democrat or nonpartisan individuals (including Kamala Harris)
We could go on. What's ironic here is that this comment just reveals how disconnected this form of left wing politics is from the larger nation. They call even examples of the politics of their own "right wing" because they're so radically left
There is no left wing politician in power anywhere in the US.
Democrats are a center-right party, they do not argue for any left wing position - like nationalizing industry, abolishing markets etc etc. In Europe, their equivalents in terms of economic policy would be conservative parties like the CDU.
The fact you consider them left wing is only evidence of above overton window shift happening.
What in the quote screams left-wing to you? Is it just because he's San Franciscan? But that would be circular reasoning: SF is left because of its mayor, and its mayor is left because he's from SF.
I'm reminded of a rather unpopular statement made by Mark Shuttleworth
> Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update
By using Windows, you're impicitly trusting Microsoft and every update they make and that it won't screw things up. If you've somehow stuck around past the integrated ads, screwy install process that forces you to have an online account, and the thousands of other papercuts then you shouldn't be surprised to find some other user hostile move has taken place.
I imagine the statement is unpopular because it's deceptive and conflates different kinds of trust. If we (data subjects under the GDPR) voluntarily consent to have our data processed by them (the data controller), then we trust that they will process our data in a responsible way. But when we trust them with root, we trust that they will not take our data to begin with, because doing so would be unethical, unacceptable and (without proper consent and basis for processing) illegal.
That said, I agree that Microsoft can't really be trusted with anything.
People just aren't used to how LLMs and their tools are developed
Depending on the time of the year you can expect fresh updates from any given company on how their new models and tools perform and they'll generally blow the competition out of the water.
The trick is to either realize that your current tools will just become magically better in a few months OR lean in and switch companies as their tools and models update.
> If the defaults are fine for a use case then unless I want to tune it for personal interest it’s either a poor use of my fun time or a poor use of my clients funds.
It doesn't matter if you've crippled the benchmark if the performance of both options still exceeds your expectations. Not all of us are trying eek out every drop of performance
And, well, if you are then you can ignore the entire post because Redis offers better perf than postgres and you'd use that. It's that simple.
good point, even postgres crippled was "good enough" so it doesn't change the overall message. Nonetheless, we should strive to do realistic and valid benchmarks, no?
Back in 2009 during the Cyanogenmod days, Google issued a C&D to the developers to keep them from distributing Google Apps alongside the main ROM. IMO it was less about the app distribution and more to force Cyanogemod to come to the table and work with Google to develop ground rules on how 3rd party ROMs would interact with Google more broadly. Cyanogemod (now LineageOS) basically agreed not to step on Google's toes. At the time it was not to distribute Google's Apps inside of the ROM. Now it's to not bypass OS level protections like Play Integrity (formerly Safety Net)
> Any action taken to bypass Play Integrity risks a backlash against all custom OSes, and could cause Google to block them entirely from the Play Store.
So long as the main players follow this advice, Google tends to also ignore smaller players that _are_ working around this via Magisk or other means. It's also possible that this simply becomes non-viable after some time.
It's also worth noting, Google has ways to allow third parties to certify their devices on https://www.google.com/android/uncertified/ . This doesn't grant fully Safety Net, but it's definitely another way Google is working with custom ROMs to ensure you have access to the Play Store
You can't with Tiananmen square in China
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