Oh please feel free to tell me how I’m wrong about things happening in my country, jackass.

I’m pretty sure that compared to the US, the only relevant social program we have is cops chasing homeless people out of sight, as opposed to letting them hang out wherever.

Aside from universal healthcare, of course.

Yeah, I’ve lumped them together in my mind, because subway is typically not called ‘train’ in my language. But the situation is about the same. Just looked it up: a subway car here has the ‘full capacity’ of over 300 people, commuter cars around the same, but probably less in practice. And the numbers sure push toward that during rush hour.

Explain then how it is that there are no dirty smelly masturbating crazies on buses and subways in my country.

Crazies hang out doing crazy stuff in spaces that are conducive to such behavior. If normal people ride public transport because it’s expected that public transport accommodates normal people, then crazy behavior isn’t tolerated on public transport.

Oh suuuure. Except maybe you haven’t noticed, but I can read English, and peruse US-dominated social media. In the threads on mass transit it’s always “truly these are complex and multifaceted problems”, and then outside that thread it’s “I had to use subway today with all the masturbating weirdos like a peasant”.

That always sounded to me like a chicken-egg problem. People don’t use buses and subways, because buses and subways are populated by weird dirty hobos. Well guess what…

Buses seem to be shafted in that comparison by the fact that no one uses them in the US. Where I am, a bus gets just seven passengers only in the middle of the night. At other times, buses would be easily at the top of the table if not for the fact that our trains also move more than twenty people per car.

Indeed, admittedly Westerners are free to visit Israel as they see fit and get spat on and kicked by the Orthodox Judaists as much as they want, in excess even.

Hammerspoon and Alfred are way better automation utils than alternatives in Windows or Linux. The absence of these two makes me weep regularly.

Karabiner might be the best too, haven’t looked into third-party Linux remapping utils yet. Both Cinnamon and KDE support only predefined remapping out of the box.

HyperSwitch and a dozen other utils allow customizing cmd-tab switching, namely add switching between windows instead of apps.

Native Clipy clipboard manager is way snappier than CopyQ. At least for Windows there’s Ditto.

There’s even an util called Mos fixing the fact that apps with foreign UI frameworks don’t understand the mouse scrolling speed properly, and treat the mouse and the touchpad differently. Which is also present in Windows.

You know about the touchbar? MTMR allows custom buttons on the touchbar, with custom actions. I’ve used it to connect/disconnect bluetooth headphones or hand them over to the phone (which was also set up as an Alfred command and as buttons on the phone itself, with bidirectional logic everywhere).

Shortcat allows keyboard access to arbitrary UI elements in the active window: sorta like Vimium for browsers, but you type a bit of the text label instead of a two-letter shortcut.

Hazel automatically processes files saved in particular folders, with particular rules — like the downloads. It can e.g. rename, move, or tag them. By the way, did you know that MacOS has tags for files while Windows and Linux have jackshit?

MacOS’ Cocoa UI framework allows addressing any element in an app’s window via xpath (iirc) and manipulate them, if given accessibility permissions from the user. Which permits doing a lot of UI automation without fiddling with mouse coordinates and faking clicks. And can be done with native AppleScript (although I’d prefer that they properly supported JXA instead). By the way, more than a few apps provide their own support for AppleScript, such that for example you can access notes in Evernote with it.

P.S. I also forgot about Automator, which is a first-party app by Apple, bundled with MacOS, that allows creating custom workflows for particular files, apps, or whatever. Neither Windows nor Linux ship with anything remotely like this, and even third-party apps in Win/Lin suck in comparison. iOS also has something similar with the Shortcuts app, while Google phones have the Assistant, which afaik can’t work without phoning home.

There are tons of utils to customize the MacOS UI, including lots of open-source ones and some that kick ass off anything on Linux or Windows. Anyone saying that MacOS can’t be customized, has never used MacOS.

Wow, it continues to be a mess in your head. Nothing but mush in there.

Wow, it’s really a damn mess in your head.

How about you reread the thread instead, see that it’s about accurately reproducing existing stars, and realize that you indeed have a comprehension problem.

Remarkable that you can copypaste all that and still can’t comprehend what was done in 1984 and what was done in 2014.

If you find a way to represent our existing Milky Way galaxy with a procedural algorithm and a seed that can be run in a reasonable time on any current computer or even a cluster (say, running for a few dozen years), you’re welcome to claim the Nobel prize.

‘Elite Dangerous’ is from 2014.

The article is technically correct in that the code has been open-sourced and published, except it happened in 2016, so I’m guessing the author just decided to ride the Artemis hype.

I guess then that they just block popular third-party VPN services. Still not sure why, though, if it’s not mandated by law.

You are somehow interpreting me not seeing the good in AI as if it was the same as less-able people being unworthy of aid?

I provided examples of the good delivered specifically by AI for disabled people, you still continue to dismiss it. This means that either you’re particularly dumb, pretend to be so, or are a bigot. Choose for yourself which one it is.

I simply say AI is not the way, or even a way. AI is the solution to an invented problem

Blind people not being able to see unless someone, or an AI, describes the surroundings for them, is an invented problem? You seem to be doubling down on either the bigotry or the idiocy.

But wait, since you say AI isn’t the way, you surely have another solution in mind. You know you’re free to advocate for that solution instead, without being an asshole toward disabled people.

when people say “only AI can cope with the scale”, have you stopped to ask, where does the scale come from?

That video is from 2020. Pray tell, were you also protesting against AI in 2020, or did you finger your ass instead until it’s become fashionable to hate ChatGPT, so you could blindly transfer that hate onto Apple too? Have you ever spent a second to learn that the Neural Engine accelerator for AI functionality was included in iPhones since 2017, or did you just pull your ideas about ‘AI scale’ out of your asshole? Do you even understand what it means when AI processing is done locally on end-user devices, or did three buzzwords about AI hate block the entirety of your feeble reasoning ability?

And, for that matter, 85% of what people call “AI” is actually just remote operators in Kenya or India

Or really, please feel free to provide any semblance of proof that Apple’s AI is done by people in Kenya, India or wherever, despite the Neural Engine chip. Be sure especially to highlight how the poor overworked people are able to do sub-second responses to millions of queries every day, with no change in the cadence of quality of the responses.

Anyone can make gas from a stove or a propane tank explode, no special talent needed for that and it happens all the time.

To disguise the traffic completely, you can use either aforementioned Shadowsocks or obfs4, which both make it look random and are used by Tor bridges to circumvent packet inspection and whatnot. obfs4 is a bit ass to setup standalone, because it was made specifically for Tor — you need a different piece of software to make it work like a proxy. Dunno about Shadowsocks.

Regarding VPN blocking in general, I wonder how the UK or your provider deal with the fact that a lot of businesses use VPNs for their day-to-day operations. From quick googling, VPNs don’t seem to be banned nationwide, so it would be nice if you asked the sysadmin at your work to set up a VPN, see if your ISP blocks connections to it, and raise a stink if they do.