TheGalacticVoid
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- Comment on Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more 1 day ago:
For some justices, I agree. However, as a general principle, I think of the vast majority of “bad people” as incompetent rather than malicious unless there’s proof of guilt. I don’t know enough about all 9 justices to comfortably say they’re evil or corrupt.
- Comment on Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more 1 day ago:
It’s simply an institution meant to interpret laws and their legality. All of that goes out the window when the people in said institution are politically charged, corrupt, or make bad arguments.
- Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days 2 days ago:
The merger is still something that I’m 50/50 on because it made T-Mobile’s service so much more reliable, and iirc Sprint was genuinely struggling.
It still sucks that Boost isn’t going anywhere
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Clothing gets you negative comments. iMessage gets people to exclude you from group chats or even text messaging completely. It’s become far more socially acceptable to isolate someone because of what they don’t own.
Even if this were the same level of bullying, the amount of resources that Apple needs to fix this is negligible compared to clothing companies or whathaveyou. You can’t update a shirt. You can easily update the color of a bubble or implement an industry standard. Apple refuses to even try to fix this issue, and in my eyes, they’re 100% complicit in enabling bullying.
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. The problem isn’t the fact that the indicator exists. A lot of it is because it’s an ugly green bubble, and Apple refuses to change it because bullying kids is great marketing for Apple.
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
India is a huge market for WhatsApp
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Is it not proprietary due to carriers being extremely fussy?
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 days ago:
I think projects like this are good, but I really don’t want governments to create their own version of XYZ for the sake of creating clones of XYZ. I’m scared that all this will do is fragment an almost-universal collection of open-source projects into regional variants for no real reason.
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 5 days ago:
That is my point. What isn’t necessarily obvious, though, is that the scrapable data is more comprehensive than what could be scraped on traditional platforms
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 5 days ago:
Remember, if Meta can collect your data this way, any bad actor or government can as well.
- Comment on EU charges Microsoft with 'abusive' bundling of Teams and Office, breaching antitrust rules 5 days ago:
Please do Chrome first, though. At least Edge has introduced solid features, whereas Google has a history of limiting other browsers on its websites to promote Chrome.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 5 days ago:
The US government isn’t gonna do anything like this unless it causes a huge fuss. The agencies responsible don’t get enough funding to properly regulate the stuff they’re supposed to, and they have to prioritize as a result.
I’m sure companies know this very well. Our rights as consumers have been slowly decaying for years, and we haven’t seen much government action until recently.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
The way I see it isn’t that stereotypes are inherently awful, it’s that they have various levels of impact. Racism against African Americans is considered more heavily because they have such a long history of oppression that not many other groups have had. Most other groups didn’t meet fierce resistance to obtaining basic rights for as long as they did
- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 1 week ago:
In most US states, you can be fired for any reason that isn’t explicitly illegal.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 month ago:
This is wild to me.
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 1 month ago:
If Boeing supplied the bullet, it would’ve shattered before it left the gun
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 1 month ago:
They killed the first guy through years of abuse, not by directly killing him.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 1 month ago:
If the amount of money was small and finite, one person could hoard most of the entire supply of money, and because the rest of society can’t use their currency as easily to trade, there’s less value in the utility of it. The entire purpose of cash is that it’s a universal store of value so that you don’t have to trade goods for goods and instead trade cash for goods. Nobody would use cash if they can’t ever have enough to purchase what they need in the increments they need.
Disclaimer: this is just my intuition; I am not an economist
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 1 month ago:
I agreed until you said that money was made to cause violence.
- Comment on If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? 2 months ago:
Same with me and metric. Metric to me is only useful for abstract concepts and scientific calculations
- Comment on Later generations will have less attachment to how things were when they grew up because everything changes a lot faster. 2 months ago:
Since 2004, we got smartphones which replaced a huge chunk of technology, internet has become far faster and more accessible leading to streaming services like Netflix and freelance video platforms like YouTube exploding, far fewer people having cable TV, kids growing up with online video rather than TV, social media went from simple platforms meant for communication with friends and family to behemoths meant to capture as much of your attention as possible, misinformation has become more trustworthy to many than traditional news, public school classrooms gained access to technology like Duolingo as learning aids, physical media has been phased out in basically all homes except those with video game consoles, software purchases have been replaced with subscriptions, and now we have programs that can create realistic-looking images and videos, human-like passages, and real-sounding speech.
Saying that none of that is as groundbreaking as the Internet is kinda like saying the Internet wasn’t as groundbreaking as electricity. Just because the effects are subtle doesn’t make it any less groundbreaking.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 3 months ago:
I want to use another engine so bad but Google has such little nice-to-have features that no other engine has.
- Comment on Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. 5 months ago:
I understand that perspective. In a lot of cases, people sell out because they are burnt out (Notch with Mojang/Minecraft) or because they think it’s best for their company and its vision (LucasArts).
I don’t think we can have a good solution to this issue until “creating shareholder value” moves down from 1st to 3rd or 4th or lower on the list of priorities for large companies.
- Comment on They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility. 5 months ago:
OP assumes that the multiverse has constraints. The person you replied to is saying that OP is wrong because we don’t know whether the multiverse has constraints, so OP is wrong.
- Comment on Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. 5 months ago:
The thing is, for-profit doesn’t equal bad. There are a small subset of companies that aim to provide the best service for modest gain, and IMO, they are inherently as trustworthy as orgs like the EFF.
- Comment on I wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads. 5 months ago:
At that point it’s not an ad, it’s sponsored content
- Comment on Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US 5 months ago:
Except now it’s because of a patent dispute instead of “because I said so!”
- Comment on A Skibirational message on Christmas 5 months ago:
Gen Alpha*
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 5 months ago:
As for minor issues, EGS does not have feature parity with Steam or GOG. They don’t have user reviews, for example. This makes it a worse user experience.
More importantly, Epic has a habit of anti-competitive or anti-consumer behavior. When EGS first launched, they were keen on doing console-style timed exclusives, even for games that were already purchasable on platforms like Steam.
Lastly, Epic has a history of neglecting or shutting down games. A few of their older games were taken offline permanently when Fortnite started gaining traction. They then purchased a few studios, namely Psyonix (makers of Rocket League), Mediatonic (Fall Guys), and Harmonix (Rock Band/Guitar Hero series). These studios seem to be a shell of what they used to be. Psyonix’s first major project under Epic was Rocket Racing in Fortnite, and this project seemed to be prioritized over Rocket League and even caused the removal of core features of Rocket League. Harmonix worked on Fortnite Festival, but that came at the cost of Fuser, which shut down and was delisted about a year after launch. As for Mediatonic, I don’t think they worked on anything else yet, but a large portion of the studio was recently laid off. Needless to say, fans of the affected studios aren’t happy with Epic as they’re being treated as 2nd-class citizens compared to Fortnite players.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Rubik’s cubes made by Chinese companies are infinitely better than Rubik’s branded products. This is just an edge case, though.