Don’t give them ideas.

I always thought that given that personal use of google street maps os free for the user. It would be really easy to just make a copy of that game for free relying on scrapping instead of api calls.

Insert chad scrapper vs virgin API user meme.

There are several issues with that.

First and foremost. Most people’s devices are not powerful enough to make any money mining any cryptocurrency.

Also a cryptominer is not “free real state” it chugs the computer. The user would have a terrible experience trying to do anything with a cryptominer on the background.

And finally, there are many free software out there. Not everything is to be monetized. Some things should just be free. I have done plenty of free things for others to enjoy, it’s not the end of the world, quite the opposite is quite rewarding.

10/10 times I would chose to fight a MMA fighter than a crazy rando who weight 45Kg and doesn’t seem to be able to walk straight.

Good moment to ask how is Victoria 3

Of course. I stand on high moral ground when I chose to pirate.

Economy is broken and anti-consumer. Piracy if the only way I know to balance things of. If I wouldn’t be pirating I would just be letting those economic bullies take advantage of me.

And specially with cultural products there’s another big reason, as I think human culture is to be shared, not sold. I do actually think is inmoral to prevent other humans to freely access anything that could be considered cultural.

I still think going to war is worse than watching some news about whatever on the tv or tiktok.

Btw, mental health issues are not on the rise. Diagnosis is on the rise. Before those same mental health issues existed and were undiagnosed and untreated, with terrible consequences. At least kids today are getting the help they need with mental health.

Good luck in the 80s trying to go to a doctor for anxiety, or to get any kind of mental health diagnosis or treatment as a kid.

And let’s not even mention the constant house violence against kids that used to happen. Boomers and gen x were wildly beaten by their parents as a normal practice. Nowadays parents no longer hit their kids.

Child protection laws are way better in every way, many kids are no longer forced to stay with abusive families…

And of course there is a world in difference for an LGBT kid in the 80s compared to now.

I sincerely don’t think there is any reasonable approach to defend that today kids “have it worse” than previous generation.

This is like Nostradamus for me. I don’t want to update and deal with potential breaks.

Haven’t boomers been drafted to Vietnam by force? Like you had to go there to die, no options.

I think being forced to fight a war is pretty worse than most issues of people that age now.

At least we are talking about young people who live in active combat zones right now. I’m just taking the euroamerican centristic view on the matter.

I liked vice city and San Andreas.

Since IV they have been striping features from the games (also IV had huge performance issues). And V is completely bland to me. I didn’t enjoy it. And I don’t expect much from VI. I expect the same shallowness as V with a different background.

If I’m wrong good from everyone. But I won’t get disappointed if it’s as boring a V.

No one can predict the future. One way or the other.

The best way to not be let behind is to be flexible about whatever may come.

If not so much about holding purchases. Is about money sitting. With deflation your money is worth more each day. So investment is discouraged. Why risk money if money by itself grow?

In a economy based on investments that not desired.

And there’s also the idea if “where this value is coming from?”. With inflation all the value from every cent that loss value goes somewhere. That’s easier to control. With deflation all the money that each cent gains must come from somewhere (so a few must be losing a ton of money).

I used to get the light prices on my phone widget via a public api. Some years ago they closed the api and started asking for full name and id in order to get api access. So I just made a scrapper that takes the numbers I want from their website and serves an API for the widget.

That’s the only self made app I self host, but I’m quite proud of it.

I have several books for the 90s about AI programming. AI have always mean any computer program written to “resemble” intelligence, from basic path finding to LLM.

That’s how I suppose it works in every country.

The thing is that many people have other sources of income that are not paychecks. Thus why most people need to do this yearly declarations. But it is true that in any modern country this declarations are pre-made by tax agencies and it’s easier to fill.

And there’s also deductions. In many countries people can get tax deductions by many reasons and in most places you need to manually ask for them and fill the requirements.

Here for instance we can deduct money paid to Unions from our taxes. As political and syndicate afiliation is protected by law those payments are not automatically reported to the tax agency so if you paid them you have to manually fill the tax return.

I mean every historical source is full of one sided propaganda.

Have you ever heard the phrase “history is written by winners”?

What have keep history alive is not Wikipedia. Is the fact that multiple people from multiple POV write things down and we can find and read multiple sources.

Don’t get me wrong, Wikipedia is great, but it’s not what keeps history more or less accurate. Take into account that Wikipedia is a sum up of other sources. In order to write to Wikipedia you must quote a primary source.

And AI really doesn’t have much to do with anything here. Bad sources have existed forever, since Herodotus.

I have rode the bike I had when I was a kid several decades ago. The tires themselves were good just had to change the air chambers.

Maybe they were not good for profesional cycling but for moving around I didn’t notice anything wrong with them.

I think is promoted by hispasat. But I don’t know if they use their satellites or they hire others.

You can download a collection of thousands (maybe a million I don’t even know) of books in Spanish in epub format, from the “secret library”. It’s like a 100Gb torrent, but way worth it.

Ebooks tens to have long lasting battery. I spent a few hours reading on monday.

Just now I’m on my phone, but if you are interested let me know and I’ll try to find the link and will mp it to you if you want.

And just now I’ve been thinking that epubs being so small size maybe there’s a way to transmit them over this radio mesh networks on demand, like some sort of radio library. I’ve have to look into that. Maybe they are too big for that as radio bandwidth for data transfer tends to be incredibly small.

Just in case you ever met someone who lives in a place with no cable internet (strange case in Spain as we have great coverage). Just let them know that in Spain they fund satellite internet that is not owned by elon musk. Is slower but way cheaper specially because the government funds a part of it afaik.