The ad sounded extremely ... off. The voices had the shitty mic scratchiness that I'd come to expect from a fresh 2010 YouTuber. The scene was abysmally acted, sounding like if someone with zero training was told to "speak with emotion"... wait is it autoplag?

their browser vanadium seems like a good chromium fork and a fine webview implementation but lacks an effective ad blocker, which makes it unsafe to use if your threat model includes, you know, the fucking obvious. the graphene devs will shame you for using anything but it or brave though, and officially recommend using either a VPN with ad blocking or a service like NextDNS since they don’t seem to acknowledge that network-level blocking isn’t sufficient

No firefox with ublock origin? Seems like that would be the obvious choice here (or maybe not due to Mozilla's recent antics)

beautiful

Lex hasn't optimized the skill of technical interviewing; he has optimized the skill of simultaneously stroking the interviewee's and the (implicitly) listener's ego.

global southerner? edit: nah I don't like it.

Idealism? check

False dichotomy between said idealism and cherry picked reality? check

Mistakes avoided by anyone with a mental age over 16.

oh wow re-colonizing your mouth with a bacteria that continuously produces an antibiotic is a bad idea? Who could have seen this coming???

Their brains are so saturated with information that they naturally need to explore extreme viewpoints to feel stimulated.

the shitheadery is probably? due to the author being 19.

Midjourney is profitable, so they fucked up BIG time. Imagine going bankrupt while someone else uses your technology to make money hand over fist.

who the FUCK is John Galt?

More details on the rust thing? I can't find it by searching keywords you mentioned but I must know.