Yes. Everything is monitored, and it sucks. We’ve internalized it even, you can’t so much as have a hobby without dumping money into it to signal you take it seriously

Huh… Well this story is starting to increase in credibility

Well put

How does it break down? It seems like it would work normally, if a little strangely

I wouldn’t call it a genius either, it’s just all over the place. Sometimes it’s scary good and predicts your next move, most of the time it’s just okay, sometimes it’s annoyingly bad

Uh… Sorry but no, LLMs are definitely fast enough. It works just like auto complete, except sometimes it’s a genius that pulls the next few lines you were about to write out of the ether, and sometimes it makes up a library to do something you never asked for

Mostly it works about as well as code completion software, but it’ll name variables much better

Understandable, but it’s something to work towards. Talk to people you know about it, you’d be surprised how opportunities come out of the woodwork

It will take time, you can either go to networking events to try to speed it up or keep chugging away in a sustainable fashion in the meantime

Find a partner. It can be a person, it can be a small business that might be interested in selling your software… You need at least one partner

You could try to take out a business loan or keep grinding as a side hustle, but if you don’t know how to build a product (and I don’t mean architecture) you need someone who does

And I say it as someone who has come to that realization the hard way

That’s individualistic bullshit.

The collective is what matters! It’s the whole point of all of it!

You can’t do collective action independently. It doesn’t work that way. A million people marching separately is just a million people going for a walk

You have to have a group. It doesn’t need hierarchy or organization, but it does need an immune system. You need bad actors to fall in line or be expelled. You all have to point in the same direction, even if you’d rather be a little more to one side or another

I’ve heard “join the discord” pretty often too

And you don’t understand what being effective means.

You’re why we’re fucked.

It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable

Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world

Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not

Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally

Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage

And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?

Every successful political movement is evangelical

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape

Have you heard of Slate? They sound a lot like what you’re looking for

But like… You could just make it physical. Put a couple extra leads on the PCB, charge the capacitor, and let the button close the circuit mechanically. You might have to do a couple tests, but that’s better than having storage with a delete button on it

What does a delete button add? It’ll take minutes. Might as well put an e-stop button on your desk that connects to your computer by USB

It’s basically security theatre

I mean, you could probably pick two strategic pins and fry the wells… You might have to do a few of them to make sure that your hit every bank. If you blow through the insulation between them, I can’t imagine any method could recover the data. And it shouldn’t take much current

The liquid thing was just because… You know, solid state drive

Why are you wiping the data? Why not just slag the whole chip… Hard to read an SSD in liquid form

I mean, it could just be a capacitor. It’s easier to fry something than make it delete itself