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- Comment on Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble 1 week ago:
Elon quitting as CEO is not enough. He has to divest from tesla as well. His obscene wealth is the problem, and as long as his wealth is in the company I’m going to be pulling for it to tank to zero.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 week ago:
real cops do this too, though not execution style.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 1 week ago:
They’ll turn off benefits to people with opinions
- Comment on X is having an up and down Monday 4 weeks ago:
are we looking at a work slowdown from the digital serfs of x?
- Comment on I've finally been Nicoled 4 weeks ago:
So I guess ‘Nicole’ is a bot or something? Feeling FOMO
- Comment on App Stores on Android: F-Droid? Accrescent? Others? 5 weeks ago:
Haven’t looked at it in detail. I like F-Droid because the apps seem to be non-predatory OSS that gets the job done. Its not really a ‘store’ though. I think some apps have a paid Play Store release and a free F-Droid release, to make it easy to support the devs if you want.
Does accrescent support non-free apps?
- Comment on How to get people to use Mastodon? 1 month ago:
I’ll add to this that when I first registered at mastodon.social, my default view was some fancied up multi-column monstrosity. I managed to turn most of that off, but it was super confusing at first. Start simple and let users add complexity.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
I order stuff from ebay. Got a phone on the way from china right now. Ebay work-alike might not be a bad place to start.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
Another issue might be, how do you deal with people selling illegal items/services? How do you avoid “Silk Road” style liability? Would there be a blacklist that someone running an instance could use so they don’t have to vet everyone they are federated with?
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
I wonder if you can ‘outsource’ trust by relying on payment systems? If a seller uses stripe and scams some users, stripe would freeze their account right?
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
I really like the idea of a grassroots Amazon competitor. That said,
You need to have a high level of trust. A federated network of shady scams that just take your money and send you nothing half the time is not going to fly. Is there a vetting process, who controls that process, how’s all that work. If its ‘good seller’ reviews, how are those stats protected from manipulation.
You need to have extreme ease of use. UI barriers that seem trivial to developers can sink a platform.
If there are problems solvable by centralization, maybe that could be done as a cooperative organization which devs and vendors can join and run democratically.
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 1 month ago:
Unaffected since I’ve never participated in the Kindle ecosystem. I’ve been gifted a few Kindles but never was on board with that walled garden. Fuck Amazon.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 1 month ago:
What’s FE?
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 1 month ago:
I think there’s room for a rust-lite language that is GCed. Something with a functional-style type system and that compiles to machine code.
Roc is a candidate for this language. Basically Elm that compiles to machine code, but with a number of tweaks to make it work for more than just a web front end. Like Elm, the type system is haskell like, but simplified.
- Comment on Jeep's annoying pop-up nags you to buy an extended warranty at every stop sign 1 month ago:
Still loving my 2002 subaru. Cassette adapter bluetooth lol
- Comment on Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk? 1 month ago:
Kinda rooting for the ULA sniper at this point
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
there are two 'r’s in ‘strawbery’
- Comment on would you buy a compact laptop that has spacebar touch sensitivity and allows you to adjust input sensitivity, giving it dual purpose (a spacebar and a mouse)+ it has integrated A5 printer in it? 2 months ago:
why do I want to carry a printer with me? no. this sounds more like a point-of-sale device.
- Comment on Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction 3 months ago:
More precisely, medical business strategy is a leaky abstraction; the assassination is the leak.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 6 months ago:
Whoa, better make sure all my pwds are in keepass! Didn’t know the fines were so hefty for that.