Staccato

@Staccato@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost like our entire world of modern technology is inextricably connected to the economics that support it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool, is there anything similar for lemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, the remaining employees aren’t the “dead wood” necessarily. They’re all the ones on H1 visas who can’t legally work in the US anywhere else (without taking a massive risk).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I may be missing the reference here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the fediverse, but it hasn’t fully solved the migration need problem. If I open an account on an instance which I later discover I don’t like, I have to migrate for that as well.

  The point as I see it is just limited to who do I want to follow, and what platforms can I use to do so? If bluesky turns to shit in a decade, but I get value out of it for that decade, maybe that’s enough for my needs.

  (FWIW, I am not on bluesky)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint was my first, Pop is my current and fave.

  Just remember to check your favorite Steam games on protondb.com to see how well it runs on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The games industry sucks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you dismantle inheritance, the old fat cats will find a way to pass their wealth to younger fat cats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leased Solar Systems Are Failing Across America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually appreciate this article. I’m not near where I need to be to invest in solar, but the details of the corporate fuckery that goes on in rooftop solar providers is helpful to learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I simply haven’t found as many good engaging posts in Mastodon, though, despite all that. It could be simply the challenge of building an interesting feed when you start from zero, but that’s a challenge nonetheless.

  Algorithmic identification of novel content is in my mind neither intrinsically sinister nor beneficial; like all things, it’s a tool and the morality comes out of how it is used.

  Things like (optional) recommendation tools could be a useful addition to Mastodon to help users find interesting threads. Could be run on a per instance basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree… it feels like the Fediverse doesn’t quite have the same algorithms that the single-corporation services have, and I feel it most in the search to broaden the content I see. Hopefully the exploratory element picks up as time goes on!