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- Comment on Tiny pp 1 week ago:
Enjoy it! You could be driving another fun car with a completely boring sounding engine (cough FL5 cough) with almost no good sounding exhausts that aren’t just noise.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Glorious 160x150 resolution
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 1 month ago:
There was a British superhero TV show called Misfits. One of the delinquents had the power to control milk, I.e. you drink milk and this guy could curdle it in your body and kill you.
Are we both thinking about 15% BAC murderin’ Jesus here?
- Comment on Warside looks great for turn-based tactics Advance Wars fans, set for launch in January 2025 1 month ago:
Just wanted to say that while this looks fun, it was supposed to release about a year ago
- Comment on What happens if Biden dies before the next inauguration (see inside)? 4 months ago:
Some times you want somebody to double check your work before you turn it in
- Comment on Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag 4 months ago:
Makes me feel better about only paying for a 300% markup on car parts
- Comment on Still trapped on Baltimore ship, months after bridge collapse 5 months ago:
The ship had an engineering casualty which led to a loss of control. The navigator didn’t decide to drive into the bridge.
The captain is ultimately responsible, but the crew is not without fault.
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 6 months ago:
Look at this human still using SSH. I bet they still process on old PCs instead of PC2’s
- Comment on What Dollar General Doesn't Want you to Know 6 months ago:
Is there a tldw for this?
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 6 months ago:
This shit can destroy companies and tank its value
Leaving hundreds of contacts in limbo with no resolution has the potential to cost more than $17 million in legal fees and termination clauses.
Where the fuck is the board of directors and why are none of the shareholders revolting?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
“Your employer-subsidized healthcare plan costs rose 40% this year so think of all the extra benefits you enjoy!”
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 6 months ago:
We have plenty of things to be old grumpy grouches about.
“Those banks ruined the American dream and we bailed them out!”
“Fossil fuel companies successfully lobbied the government to allow them to poison our planet in the name of profit!”
“Those Disney crooks consolidated all media and destroyed independent creative ventures!”
“Back in my day we could afford a house if we saved 10 years of earnings for a down payment and then took out a loan eventually totaling twice the value of the purchase price. You kids have it easy with your rental sleeping pods and low-monthly rate outdoors park subscriptions. You don’t even contribute to furniture or clothing industries because you don’t own a place to put any!”
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 6 months ago:
I’ve lived in both. The average people don’t seem to care.
Older Texans might namedrop California at times when they’re airing political grievances, but older people everywhere seem to have some casual “product of the times” prejudices against something.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
I’m not an economist but that makes sense to me.
What about a modified scenario:
A small island has three cupcake makers operating out of their homes: Meta, Alphabet, and Bytedance. Each has captured a section of the island’s market with cupcakes and at this point, there’s no real opportunity for growth. Meta can’t convince Bytedance’s customers to switch because they prefer other flavors. Meta would need to purchase one of the other cupcake companies in order to expand.
None of the cupcake makers are interested in selling their companies. They consider themselves elite and their successes feed into the CEO and shareholder perceptions of value and success.
Now, we consider that one of the cupcake companies is funded by a rich uncle from a different country. The island’s elders decide that the uncle’s influence is too great and orders Bytedance to sell its cupcake company or leave the island.
We’ve established earlier that people who like Bytedance cupcakes don’t necessarily want to eat Meta or Alphabet cupcakes, so if they leave the market, those customers may be gone for good. They may have a change of heart and decide that cupcakes of any flavor are fine, but they may also be angry that the government forced their favorite place out of business. In any case, Meta and Alphabet cannot rely capturing this segment of the market to grow.
Faced with the dilemma of possibly gaining customers organically or definitely gaining customers by purchasing their preferred product brand, I’d argue that the remaining companies may jump on the opportunity to purchase Bytedance before they are forced out. None of the cupcake companies were up for sale in a traditional sense before, so this was never a realistic path to achieve growth.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
“Vote to participate in democracy! Here’s some local voting resources”
vs
“Vote to protect our interests! Tell your representative that they are killing free speech if they don’t listen to me”
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
The US government is doing the same thing… poorly. You probably aren’t going to find a lot of sources showing that the US is fighting these fights on Facebook and twitter, but you can read between the lines with interviews.
Agree with you though. National security has trumped privacy. 9/11 changed a lot of things in a bad way.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
I’m not arguing against them explaining their rationale. I originally argued that they shouldn’t be taken as experts.
Zuckerberg and Musk “get” to do these things because they are in the US, with majority US-based workers, running off US-based infrastructure. If any of these platforms are being used to facilitate attacks against the US, the government has can choose any number of methods to step in and enforcing compliance. That’s it.
If Facebook was run and operated out of Tunisia, I’d expect these same conversations to be happening with them as well.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
They largely don’t write the legislation. Lobby groups draft the materials and if we’re lucky, the congressional aides make a pass and clean things up.
You can search for why TikTok is dangerous. There are plenty of examples of how the application and platform are not being forthright with how they collect your identifiers and weaponize them for information operations campaigns.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
They can talk about it if they want to, but we shouldn’t be using them as our only source of information. Curious on why politicians voted X instead of Y? Look it up! See what experts in the field are saying.
You shouldn’t rely on them to tell you why TikTok is a threat the same way we shouldn’t rely on them to inform us on why weakening EPA standards is good for the environment, why taxing foreign trucks is good for the economy, or why drawing voting maps to concentrate demographics is good for democracy.
The same way you may care about many things but only know a lot about a few subjects, they legislate everything and people act like they are the experts. Why assume they know what they’re talking about for every single topic?
- Comment on Boeing is changing their brand name 6 months ago:
I’m imagining the GruWithGun.jpg meme with this slogan and I think it might just work.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 6 months ago:
More referring to selling a device classified as a mobile phone that might not be able to connect to emergency services without any tinkering. My google-fu is failing me now, but I’m trying to see what the actual requirements are, if they exist at all, to sell a mobile phone. All I’m seeing is that the radio shall connect to any available base stations during an emergency call regardless of subscriber status.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 6 months ago:
I imagine the lack of voice support presents some compliance issues with emergency calls.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
That hasn’t been the case for 50 years. Your rights are inalienable as long as there’s some enforcement mechanism. All three branches have walked back certain rights in various forms in modern times.
Be the change you want to see; work in Federal service, get yourself elected, or draft policy for lawmakers
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
The US isn’t a straight simple democracy, so you win I guess.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
Only way you’re voting yourself out of the US is with your feet. There are no mechanisms to relinquish citizenship (and your vote, barring convictions) while remaining in the country.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
Propaganda is effective. It’s at times silly, blatant, jingoistic, and offensive, but it has historically worked to influence public opinions.
I think you’re right, but saying the quiet part out loud. People don’t like to think they’re susceptible to scams and propaganda because they’re not that dumb or gullible. People still click on phishing emails…
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
Data harvesting is half of the problem. I have a feeling that congress could give two shits about the data harvesting as it’s almost literally everywhere in modern society and not in the interests of donors or the nationality security apparatus to remove.
The other half is the platform and its potential (hypothetical and actual) for use in information operations. TikTok has direct access to something like 160 million American devices. That rivals other social media giants like Meta who have some government liaisons and relationships embedded in their security teams. ByteDance to my knowledge does not have these relationships. This problem could just as easily apply to any other foreign platform if any were large enough to pose threats of this scale.
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 6 months ago:
The electric motors can be pretty tiny. The batteries are generally the packaging problem. They’re heavy and lumping them all where the engine would have been in a vehicle will have severe impacts on weight balance and handling. Distributing them is best, but requires space that vehicles need to be designed around. You can put some batteries in the engine compartment and some in the trunk to keep things neutral, but that still requires giving up storage space and requires running a high voltage line throughout the vehicle to connect the battery banks.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
Exclusively available on Meta Quest 3
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
I feel like it isn’t congress’s job to do that. They don’t have to share or repeat information that they are not experts on to the public. They can share their thought process and rationale for supporting legislation, but we shouldn’t expect them to be perceived as technical experts. I bet that fewer than 10 congressional representatives can look at a portion of code and make an educated statement on what’s going on.
It’s the job of the organization(s) that prepare the security briefing, and we’ve already been hearing this kind of thing in the cybersecurity field for years. Those in the know, know. Those not, tend to not believe it. Warnings about the potential for data harvesting and information operations via platforms like (and specifically) Tik Tok aren’t new.