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- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 6 days ago:
Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd. … But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company.”
This is the same problem that all these “free speech platforms” keep running into. Some people will abuse free speech - if nothing else, I think everyone can agree spam is a type of abusive speech. But the difference between abusive speech and ordinary speech isn’t a sharp line, and the definitions of “abuse” will vary. So there needs to be some mechanism or rules for deciding what that line is. But all the people that create these platforms instead wanna pretend that line doesn’t exist, so they don’t create a means of determining it. So then “abuse” becomes whatever the users demand and/or the decisionmakers decide it is. Which is exactly the same as having no free speech to begin with.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 week ago:
If you assume:
- X is a bad thing (either because it promotes bad ideas, or because it crowds out better platforms, or some other reason)
- The more users and functionality X has, the more powerful it will be.
Then removing functionality from X is a good thing.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 1 week ago:
As productivity increases, artificial scarcity becomes necessary to maintain pre-existing levels of inequality.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
There’s 2 kinds of evidence.
- Circumstantial evidence - relies on an inference to connect it to the conclusion (e.g. guy saying before hand he won’t kill himself).
- Direct evidence - no additional inference/evidence is needed (e.g. video of a guy going up to the car and shooting him).
The guy saying he won’t kill himself requires inferring that he’s being truthful when he said it and that he didn’t change his mind. It’s not non-evidence, it does point to suicide being less likely. But it’s far from conclusive.
They just happened to work at the same company and die right before they could testify on the same thing.
That’s also a common misunderstanding, at least regarding the first (I’m not as familiar with the second). The first had just testified at a Boeing-led deposition, and had one more day left. Problem with that is - it’s Boeing’s deposition. If they didn’t want him to testify the second day, all they’d need to do is cancel the deposition. Generally you do a deposition to get an opposing witness to make admissions that can be used against them at trial if necessary, and/or demonstrate to the other side that they don’t have a case so you can force them to settle before trial. So Boeing had little reason to kill him before their own deposition was over. The only reason they’d do it then was to silence him generally…but doing it in a way that draws so much suspicion to them seems like an implausibly bad decision. Then again, it is Boeing.
- Comment on Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 2 weeks ago:
According to the report, the sales decline came from all across Asia. Net sales were down in Greater China (PRC, Taiwan & Hong Kong), Japan, and the Rest of Asia Pacific, while the Americas and Europe saw an insignificant change that can be rounded up to 0%.
This makes sense. Apple has its status as “the one and only smartphone” in the US, but in other countries buying a phone that costs a tiny fraction as much is probably a bigger draw and has less social stigma.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 2 weeks ago:
We need Yahoo back. Just a bunch of categories, where anyone can put their site under the right category.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
Bumble is pretty much the only one they don’t own. The only other one I can think of is coffee meets bagel, does anyone still use that?
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 2 weeks ago:
- Trump’s lawyers would argue that Biden can order Trump’s execution without any punishment, but that it would not cause him to win the next election because the military and other federal officials are not immune and are “obligated” not to follow illegal orders. So basically the argument is that illegal orders are unlikely to be followed.
- Problem with this argument is that the president has the pardon power, which means he could promise to pardon people for following his illegal orders.*
- But the problem with that argument is that some believe the president could pardon himself, so maybe that situation is already a reality even if the president is not immune
- What would actually happen? It seems like in both Watergate and Jan 6, some people did refuse to follow corrupt orders. But in the case of Watergate where there was more time and a more intelligent corrupt president, that wasn’t itself a major problem. In Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, he forced his AGs to resign until he landed on future Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, who carried out Nixon’s illegal order to fire a special prosecutor. The bad news for Nixon is that the move was so unpopular it eventually led to his resignation as he probably would’ve been impeached otherwise.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
I just created justtext@lemmy.world in case you wanna just post the text instead of picture, because I’m perhaps irrationally annoyed by pictures of text.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 2 weeks ago:
Autopilot “is not a self-driving technology and does not replace the driver,” Tesla said in response to a 2020 case filed in Florida. “The driver can and must still brake, accelerate and steer just as if the system is not engaged.”
Tesla’s terminology is so confusing. If “Autopilot” isn’t self-driving technology, does that mean it’s different from “Full Self Driving”? And if so, is “Full Self Driving” also not a self-driving technology?
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 2 weeks ago:
Texas never attracted techies, it attracted a few Republican tech CEOs with disproportionate shares of power. I’ve always turned down recruiters trying to get me to move there regardless of how good the job is on paper. If I’ve got options, I’m choosing to live on one of the coasts. There’s nothing for me in Texas. I mean I’ve been to Bucees once, it’s worth visiting. But I’m gonna guess the novelty is probably over by the second visit.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
“Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” Musk wrote on X.
…that makes no sense. I mean by “bots” usually we mean accounts that advertise one thing or another to make money. And if there’s any cause worth paying money for, it’s making more money. But some sports fan or BTS stan or whatever just wanting to cheer on their thing is just gonna stop posting.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 2 months ago:
But that’s because they were used to other cars. If you’re used to pressing the button, that’s where you’re gonna go in a panic. Fear basically shuts down higher thought processes so you act fast rather than carefully. So the same reflexive action you use to exit in normal circumstances would be the only thing you can conceive of if you’re on fire or drowning.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
I look at it as Actual price = menu price + lowest suggested tip + $5 tip awkwardness penalty. So a place near me has a $12 lunch-size sub sandwich that’s really good. But they ask for a 15% tip. So rather than just never eat at my favorite sandwich spot, I regard it as a $18.80 lunch and only buy it on rare occasions or when my company is paying.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 2 months ago:
In a blog post, Waymo has revealed that on December 11, 2023, one of its robotaxis collided with a backwards-facing pickup truck being towed ahead of it. The company says the truck was being towed improperly and was angled across a center turn lane and a traffic lane.
See? Waymo robotaxis don’t just take you where you need to go, they also dispense swift road justice.
- Comment on Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... 3 months ago:
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) study that found SUVs to be 20 percent more polluting and twice as likely to kill a pedestrian in a collision compared to smaller conventional cars.
Twice as likely to kill a pedestrian…if that number holds up this needs to happen in more cities. Driving an excessively deadly vehicle through crowded areas shouldn’t be free.
- Comment on Tesla shares slide after judge voids Elon Musk's $56 billion compensation 3 months ago:
Tesla and Musk’s attorneys, the court decided, “were unable to prove that the stockholder vote was fully informed because the proxy statement inaccurately described key directors as independent and misleadingly omitted details about the process.”
I’m guessing this was the key problem. Courts are very reluctant to set aside corporate decisions like CEO pay packages for soft reasons like “unfairness”. But when you start getting into dishonesty and not meeting basic requirements, it’s kind of forcing the judge’s hand.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles 3 months ago:
My understanding of this article is that Tesla’s range estimates were based on assuming they were being driven in it’s range-maximizing, low-performance “chill mode”, while the new EPA rules require reporting the range in the car’s default mode.
- Comment on Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year. 3 months ago:
Google is so broken that people are choosing to use a chatbot that often makes things up instead, and they think they have too many people fixing stuff.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 3 months ago:
Not OP but regarding sources, there’s a community referred to as “TSLAQ” (Q referring to a letter typically added to bankrupt stock symbols) that’s been critical of TSLA’s accounting practices. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Ac…
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 4 months ago:
This is old news though. The article is a poll of engineers, which means that the “news” is what we already know.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 4 months ago:
It wasn’t just him though, he put up less than half the money. Other investors and lenders backed that price and hoped to profit after the purchase. I think it’s fair to say that the market valued Twitter + Elon at the price he paid, and was initially willing to pay more than what Twitter was trading at because they bought into the idea that he’d do good things with it.
Elon only wanted to back out after tech stocks overall dropped further following an increase in inflation concerns (they were already down, providing an opportunity for the buyout, but continued to fall after the deal). But most tech stocks have since recovered those losses and the nasdaq is up about 10% from where it was at the time of the deal.
- Comment on Weather app asking for permission to manage calls 4 months ago:
I’ve done this on a simple timer app I developed.
Why? Because I want the timer to stop automatically during a phone call. Unfortunately, there’s no way to alter the permission request to tell the user (at least in Android) why you want the permission. They really need to make the permissions more granular and provide some way for devs to communicate what the permission is for.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 4 months ago:
While traffic has not changed substantially, many users report the quality of content and the kinds of posts that are surfaced on user homepages now seem different. RamsesThePigeon said the content on some of Reddit’s most-followed pages, which he moderates, had “gone sharply downhill”.
This has been a long term process. I was on reddit since 2012 or so. In the early days I used it to help me change careers and grow as a developer, and keep track of tech and space news and other topics that matted to me. But the reality is it wasn’t even the API stuff that drove me away. The first thing that really got to me was when I couldn’t get rid of r/all as a subscribed sub, and that was full of quick dopamine hits and clickbait. Then every sub seemed to go downhill in terms of content, filled with outrage and pictures of tweets as if I would use twitter if it only used images instead of text. By the time the blackout happened reddit had become a net negative time sink in my life and I figured it was time to cut it off for good.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 5 months ago:
I use it by default to listen to podcasts when running or at the gym. I only buy phones with a headphone jack because I feel like wired headphones are a better feature than any flagship phone stuff. Wired headphones are much cheaper, interchangeable, harder to lose, no connection hassles, and best of all I don’t need to remember to charge them. The only downside is tangles.
I have a pair of wireless earbuds I got ages ago for about 5x what my wired earbuds cost, when I mistakenly bought a non-jack phone. I don’t use them since going back to a jacked phone.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 5 months ago:
I’m happy with this. I feel like Lemmy is an oasis of nerds in a social media world of toxic people obsessed with all the wrong things.
- Comment on AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.” 5 months ago:
That’s pretty much social media today.
- Comment on Grok refuses to answer a prompt, says its a violation of the "OpenAI Policy" 5 months ago:
I can buy that this was accidental because that answer is way less direct/relevant that what ChatGPT would provide. The guy asked for malicious code and Grok described how to not get malicious code.
- Comment on White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House 5 months ago:
Except we’ve been trying everything else for decades now