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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Worthless =/= insolvent.

  The value is determined based on a shareholder valuation, insolvent means having a negative cashflow and depleted reserves.

  You can technically run a stock absolutely into the ground if everyone would place sell orders at market (i.e. without limit) and the only buyers would offer 1 cent.

  That changes nothing about the profitability of the company though.

  And while this is a very hypothetical scenario for a listed company, for an unlisted one you can freely adjust your list price. If he were to sell 1% for $1 to his neighbor, the company valuation would be down to 100 bucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For now it’s all or nothing. Better safe than sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that many admins and mods have been discussing for a while now, and I believe it would be an important feature for lemm.ee as well. Essentially, I would like to limit certain activities to users which meet specific requirements (maybe account age, amount of comments, etc). These activities might include things like image uploads, community creation, perhaps even private messages.

  Sounds like the old karma requirements some reddit subs had. While I’m not against that, it would restrict locally registered users more so than others who are posting on lemm.ee communities when their host instance has no such system in place. I’m aware that if they post images those would be uploaded to their home instance and linked here with the patch you mentioned above, but the downside is that local users might feel inconvenienced more so than others. Not saying it’s a bad idea though, if we are thinking from a “protect lemm.ee” angle first and foremost.

  Automated ML based NSFW scanning for all uploaded images

  You might want to reach out to the dev of Sync for Lemmy, ljdawson on !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world, he just implemented an anti-NSFW upload feature in the app to do his part. Essentially, Sync users currently can’t post any kind of porn. While I don’t think that the CP spammers were using his particular app, or any app to begin with, I do think it’s a neat feature to have, but would make much more sense to run server-side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember Xfire?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to play Duke Nukem 3D there, and I think one of the Quake games. Later games all came with bundled Gamespy and forced the installation on me, hated it so much I gave up playing online back then, and still never got back into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using Genius Scan+ and bought the cloud backup option for like $3 one-off, that enables automated exports to dropbox, google drive and a bunch of other services. Every document I receive is scanned and adequately named right away, and then automatically exported to both google drive and dropbox.

  The dropbox client then again runs on my laptop and desktop and automatically syncs new files to the local folders, so I have the original scan on my phone plus two cloud backups and the local copies of the cloud backups on another two devices.

  The original documents are kept in physical folders, neatly stored at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh sorry forgot to mention the drivers. In my experience this is not true at all. People who have drivers are usually senior executives, and they’d have company cars. Typically some top of the line Mercedes or BMW, sometimes a Porsche SUV. Electric cars (even the fancier ones) are rather affordable, and people here are very focused on their external impression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, what he mentioned were e-bikes, but those are not really on the fancy side. Search for 饿了么 scooter or 美团 scooter. They do food and grocery deliveries mostly. For private use, Niu scooters are the most popular in terms of design, but a ton of cheap stuff exists. Couldn’t tell you about the brands, they are all very generic.

  Electric motorbikes exist, but require a special license and are banned in most downtown areas, so they aren’t really common. One brand I’m aware of is called Dayi Motors, they recently got certified for the European market, so chances are that those would become available elsewhere as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In China, It’s Already Cheaper to Buy EVs Than Gasoline Cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the OP, but I live in China.

  Check out for example the Xpeng (Xiao Peng) G6 and P7, the Qiantu K50, Zeekr 009, Lynk & Co. 03, Aiways U5 and the Dongfeng Mengshi M-Hero 917 (now if that’s not HALO inspired, I don’t know…).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cunts gonna cunt.