Have you attempted talking to a young person recently? The ones currently entering the workforce appear to abhor direct verbal communication with real living beings around them quite a lot. As in "groups sitting around a table, but typing into their smartphones rather than talking to each other". Eerie...

I guess they all felt inspired by Idi Amin, a leader famous for his support of freedom of spech.

Is that a Babylon Bee authored satire text, or is this an authentic document of people derailing a software project into a political charade?

If that first level of AI-slop, currently presented to you as "conventional media", by companies formerly employing journalists, is not sloppy enough for you, have ChatGPT add another layer of hallucinated nonsense on top, so you can keep your distance from reality.

... they would just do that, earn lots and lots of money from doing so, and would not have the slightest reason to present advice to the public.

The truth is, those "Experts" are as bad as dart-throwing monkeys or ChatGPT at picking stocks, but they earn money by making other people believe they knew something special to make them rich.

If those "kicked off maintainers" deem it important to remain in power of some git repository, they can just fork it and do their own thing. And don't tell me the fate of your favorite programming language depends on a specific company hosting a specific source repository for you...

Isn't it enough to spread Rust among earth's programmers?

Isn't that already covered by putting the browser on their carelessly unlocked screen into full-screen mode and then directing the browser to https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeatspin.com%2F - one of the few web-sites that persisted since the 1990s?

Contemporary OLED screens do that "slowly moving around" on their own, already, in order to avoid "burning in" sharp, visible edges.

And, of course, with sound at full volume!

I never used a case. But I also did not waste money on an expensive high-end phone, anyway, because for me it is just a communication device, and not the center of my life.

Kind of wasteful to just filter away the UV part of the light. After all, its ~5% of total energy from the sun light at the surface could contribute to the energy harvested by the PV panel. Is finding materials that do not deteriorate when exposed to UV light too difficult?

Another option: Setup a computer that actually does use some (locally hosted, reasonably cheap) LLM, but with a system prompt that instructs it to make up "chapter 1" of any book it is asked for based on the book title - but make it boring to read, then offer the user to generate the next chapter upon request.

Or, just lower your voice, and whisper to the person asking: "I should not tell you this, but that book has been black-listed by the government, so we are not allowed to speak of it anymore."

Telling from the outside, that plan appears to work fine. It still seems unbelievable to me that among 300+ millions, these two utterly incompetent figures - Biden and and Trump - were presented as the only options to the voters. Almost as if both parties wanted to mock voters by telling them: "Look how we can make you desperately choose between two terrible options, both of which we already know will not work in your interest."

What the US is lacking is at least one non-crazy, non-demented, not-corrupt third option, but it may be too late for this to materialize.