A website doesn’t need to ask you for consent if the cookie is “strictly necessary”. I’m not sure how those anti bot protections work, but I bet they made it fit the definition of a “strictly necessary” cookie.

And at least to me, they symbolise freedom, and more specifically freedom of movement. They go wherever they want, whenever they want, with no restriction. And this is a fundamental idea of the EU.

That’s not entirely true. It’s only impossible without governments working toward it.

We have plenty of tech options to develop a secure way to have a government-issued digital ID that is able to only share selected information, like your age. But that has to come from governments, not companies needing to verify your age.

The best part is that it can be private, as in: The government doesn’t need to know who requested your age, and the website doesn’t need to know anything else than your age and which government is confirming it.

And the tech required isn’t even necessarily new or recent.

Be careful with being explained politics from other countries, even sourced. If you asked a big part of the french population what are LFI’s politics they’d tell you all sort of horrors that the media baselessly accuses them of simply because they are dangerous to the capitalistic system we live in. The formerly mainstream french “left” hates them too and always has.

Unfortunately more and more media all around the world is owned by more or less hidden oligarch wannabes.

I don’t know swedish politics either, but I wouldn’t trust random strangers on the internet to tell me what they are.

I used AI tools to do the grunt work because they are good at that.

This is something people complaining should remember. AI is good at some parts of the work of a software engineer: the grunt work.

I’ve grown increasingly disappointed with fairphone

It would be nice to include why!

You missed the point. The point is that almost all software today follows the same general ideas, patterns, etc.

The quality of the output of AI is not tied to what these patterns are used towards. Even if, say, your tool has a completely new network protocol. An LLM will still “understand” that it is a network protocol, that it serializes following rules that you tell it, serializes and deserializes the way you decide, then it will write that down in a memory and be able to work with that.

A new file format? Same. A very specialized new kind of No-SQL database that fits your very specific tool better? It will also write down in a file how it works and be able to use that.

It’s as good as the documentation you give it is. Which, for basic things such as setting up a basic REST API, it has learned in its training data. If it hasn’t, it’s up to you to provide it, and it will be perfectly able to use it.

Even if you build some weird unique assembly language it will be able to use it if you give it the set of instructions and their documentation.

There are definitely real engineers being strongly anti-AI. The problem, in my opinion, is that they just didn’t really try working with them.

They’re incredibly powerful tools, and they don’t only amplify bad developers, they amplify every developer that really tries to work with it.

The mistake people make is delegating the decision making to the AI. Let the tool be a tool, not a brain. You architect, you design, you order, it writes the code. You review the code. There you go, you have a pretty good quality code, better than most devs will produce, following your design and architecture, you controlled the entire decision making, and you did it in 5x less time.

I also think that it has become too useful to disappear in engineering.

That is not true, a lot of it is sent willingly by your browser.

And they could display it if the website was well done

And then you become even more identifiable cause you’re part of the 10 madmen in Google’s database who do it

If that is the idea then I’m behind it! Unfortunately too many bigots out there for me to assume that.

Scaring scientists away is a good thing? Or do you mean that’s more scientists for the rest of the world? Or are you simply a bigot implying that chinese-descent scientists surely are spies? So many interpretations possible :)

And I agree to all of that. And I vote in alignment with these opinions.

But this is not a reality right now, and this EU change would still benefit the general population better than no change at all.

You can work towards a world where essentials are a right and work towards bettering the current system at the same time.

Why should I, as a consumer, give a fuck about competition between capitalists and states?

Because it is directly affecting you. Unfair competition means chinese companies get a bigger market share globally while european companies get a smaller market share globally. That means more jobs in China, less jobs in the EU. That affects the general popuation immensely.

The hypocrisy of the EU (and western world) here also exists though: We benefited from cheap chinese labor for decades, and now that China has made it so that they benefit from it more than us, we’re deciding to put a stop to it.

All I care about is how much I have to pay for the car

That is the same shortsight that has brought us to this economic failure.

Nationalizing jobs does nothing if you can’t sell the products.

I don’t know how more clearly I can spell it out.

Start with some open-mindedness to recognize that your train of thoughts is flawed.

I get you, but this is not an instance of it. This is about fighting unfair competition practices. What China does is competing with EU companies in the EU while preventing EU companies from competing with Chinese companies in China.

This is not a great interpretation of the situation. China has for a while adopted a protectionist direction. China complaining about other governments going in a similar direction is hypocrisy.

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My reason for using arch linux is to have as little bloat as possible. So, pacman. Yay sometimes for AUR stuff, but my need for it is rare.

The geopolitics level of the average american

I’d argue that it is wildly different to vide coding.