Which at least for me, I'm sure I don't and never will. And seeing the kind of Big Brother shenanigans they want to pull off, such refusal becomes an even firmer conviction every day.
If the data doesn't conform to your politically motivated view of things, the data is biased and wrong and must be censored to save us all from the horror of seeing things as they are on the infosphere and over the real world.
It's not Google's job to censor what people thinks and does on the web, neither lie to us about what people think and does on their search results. The data comes from the way people post information on the web and from the universe around it producing that data, and thus it is what it is.
And if they did change it to conform with some political preference, it would be a very good time to drop Google for another less biased provider.
Most people I know look for new apps only by reputation of late. Basically only if someone they know tells them about it.
Yeah, I know an anecdote is not a trend, but my feeling is the app market is simply saturated, which forces people to rely on other sources than the app store to decide and get one.
But soon we won't have a choice, given all TVs now sport the "Smart" tag, meaning they have a complete OS that can be patched (or rather twisted) to do exactly what Samsung is planning.
The only choice is the one we always have: vote with your wallet and tell Samsung you are not OK with this idea.
Given the slant of current public discourse and "morality", I'm certain this won't impact Daesh wannabe members wishing and expressing death threats upon the Great Satan in the least, but certainly those horrible evil cis white male scum oppressing womyn by telling them being fat is not healthy, and any other horrible, unforgivable hate speech (like disagreeing with the SJW's cultish drivel).
Because the modern world has its values backwards, there is no way for this to end well.
At reddit and other places. Apparently the layoffs+robot-ization of a Foxconn factory in China and this comment from a McDo suit made them freak out about machines stealing our jerbs.
The fact that these are low skilled or burguer-flipping jobs seems to have passed largely unnoticed.
Oh, and the fact UBI doesn't really work for big-enough population countries like the USA (do the math: 300 million citizens x 10K USD per annum = 3 trillion freaking dollars).
I don't know about that whole "generational" thingie, but what I see is that the minimum skills for entry into kernel development has grown. A lot. And as rule, anything that becomes complex enough to require a lot of effort to learn, it's done only if you get paid for it.
The Linux kernel is nowadays a very complex beast, that most young developers prefer not to waste their time getting into and even less for free.
Don't get me wrong: Linux is still very much alive and evolving, also, some young developers now in college surely will end up working on supporting Linux, or other open source projects, but they end doing this only because they can get a living out of it. College, girlfriends/boyfriends, mortgage and eventual marriage+kids are costly endeavours. Idealism alone does not feed you or your family (as Erasmus in his Praise of Folly, already knew very well).
The time of martyr developers, churning out device drivers for the general good, acclaim and nerd fame is very much gone. And that's fair, as all the effort required to develop Linux kernel code is worthy of earning you a living.
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Which at least for me, I'm sure I don't and never will. And seeing the kind of Big Brother shenanigans they want to pull off, such refusal becomes an even firmer conviction every day.
If the data doesn't conform to your politically motivated view of things, the data is biased and wrong and must be censored to save us all from the horror of seeing things as they are on the infosphere and over the real world.
It's not Google's job to censor what people thinks and does on the web, neither lie to us about what people think and does on their search results. The data comes from the way people post information on the web and from the universe around it producing that data, and thus it is what it is.
And if they did change it to conform with some political preference, it would be a very good time to drop Google for another less biased provider.
Most people I know look for new apps only by reputation of late. Basically only if someone they know tells them about it.
Yeah, I know an anecdote is not a trend, but my feeling is the app market is simply saturated, which forces people to rely on other sources than the app store to decide and get one.
But soon we won't have a choice, given all TVs now sport the "Smart" tag, meaning they have a complete OS that can be patched (or rather twisted) to do exactly what Samsung is planning.
The only choice is the one we always have: vote with your wallet and tell Samsung you are not OK with this idea.
Given the slant of current public discourse and "morality", I'm certain this won't impact Daesh wannabe members wishing and expressing death threats upon the Great Satan in the least, but certainly those horrible evil cis white male scum oppressing womyn by telling them being fat is not healthy, and any other horrible, unforgivable hate speech (like disagreeing with the SJW's cultish drivel).
Because the modern world has its values backwards, there is no way for this to end well.
At reddit and other places. Apparently the layoffs+robot-ization of a Foxconn factory in China and this comment from a McDo suit made them freak out about machines stealing our jerbs.
The fact that these are low skilled or burguer-flipping jobs seems to have passed largely unnoticed.
Oh, and the fact UBI doesn't really work for big-enough population countries like the USA (do the math: 300 million citizens x 10K USD per annum = 3 trillion freaking dollars).
I don't know about that whole "generational" thingie, but what I see is that the minimum skills for entry into kernel development has grown. A lot. And as rule, anything that becomes complex enough to require a lot of effort to learn, it's done only if you get paid for it. The Linux kernel is nowadays a very complex beast, that most young developers prefer not to waste their time getting into and even less for free. Don't get me wrong: Linux is still very much alive and evolving, also, some young developers now in college surely will end up working on supporting Linux, or other open source projects, but they end doing this only because they can get a living out of it. College, girlfriends/boyfriends, mortgage and eventual marriage+kids are costly endeavours. Idealism alone does not feed you or your family (as Erasmus in his Praise of Folly, already knew very well). The time of martyr developers, churning out device drivers for the general good, acclaim and nerd fame is very much gone. And that's fair, as all the effort required to develop Linux kernel code is worthy of earning you a living.