orcrist
@orcrist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 1 day ago:
Even when they had the slogan, it was, don’t be evil. That’s a very low bar, because it’s relative to other tech companies. As long as they were less evil than Microsoft, they could pat themselves on the back.
If the goal were actually not to do evil, they would have to look at each individual action and consider whether it’s ethical. That’s something they have never done and of course they’re not going to start doing it in the future.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Warranty. Read the article.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Yes of course that kind of fraud is serious. If it can be shown that Tesla is screwing with odometers in this case, they will immediately face a massive class action lawsuit from current and former owners, and their stock will tank even more.
It affects routine maintenance, warranties, resale value, business taxes (based on the current value), and all sorts of other things.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
One person sure, but then they found lawyers who almost certainly asked for more information. So maybe your explanation is not the most likely.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
The plaintiff is using that as one piece evidence right now at the start of the case. Of course they can and will gather and present other evidence.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Under-reporting mileage is an issue because you won’t get the recommended oil checks at the right times, which will shorten your engine life. And it would be generally concerning to the owner, right? We really do assume the odometer is mostly accurate when we’re going on trips.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
No, it isn’t. Tesla’s past behavior shows that they would definitely try to do this, because they would make a lot of money. And if the odometers were “randomly” poor quality, why would we only see reports of mileage being mistakenly high? Where are the mistaken low reports? Haven’t seen any of those.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
This is one case, right? If the judge finds against Tesla, everyone who had repairs occur within 10% or 20% of the warranty expiration date could be part of a class action suit, and probably that would be easy for them to win.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Right, but Tesla has had time to push new code to their cars. So we could get a negative result now and still have past shadiness.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
Now now. There is a time to present that data, and that time is discovery, which has not yet begun.
I know you want to judge the case now, but the legal system insists that you wait until the proper time, when both sides are gathering evidence and sharing it with each other.
- Comment on How one man created 6 million Wikipedia articles, and why he stopped 1 week ago:
Except no, it’s really not. The golden rule of automatic translation is to let the reader do it when they want to.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
That’s the entire point, right? Just use an instance that’s in a country that’s not closely allied with Turkey. Everyone knows that, right? Right?
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 1 week ago:
Of course that’s not true. A single incident on a massive website like this is not going to force people who actually trusted Wikipedia before to stop trusting it in the future.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Of course they are both lying. As with all capitalists, they will always use the law to seize greater power.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
It is a small performance tweak if done once, right? But let’s suppose people worried about refactoring here would have checked to see what areas of their code are seeing heavy use.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You think most of the world works white collar jobs and goes to church on Sunday? Jesus.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The picture contradicts the claim, lol.
- Comment on Digital media – a threat to democracy? The evidence is piling up. 1 week ago:
Correlation is not causation. This is Statistics 101… I can point to other things that are correlated with the rise in the far right. For example, centralization, the increase in monopolies, the number of years since World War II, the average temperature of the earth, the number of years into the new millennium.
Anyway, when I read your comment on the whole what I actually see is that your concerned that social media is too centralized and therefore ripe for abuse. That’s vastly different from saying that social media itself is inherently going to be abused.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 1 week ago:
No, it’s not normal. Almost no internet companies around the world try to do anything similar to what Meta did and does. Even if you focus on social media companies, I believe that only a small minority try to do that kind of thing.
For example, here we are on social media. Do you see any targeted advertising? Is it being done by the Lemmy instance? And how many instances are there? Then we could look at Mastodon, or discussion forums, or comment boards, or you name it. Of course you would expect some targeted advertising, like you might find computer advertisements if you’re on a computer tech forum, but that’s different from targeting users who are in a weak state of mind, precisely because it’s targeting their overtly expressed general interests and not their temporary vulnerabilities.
Finally, I think you should go back and read the article. You ranted about companies trying to shove things down your throats, but the article was about how to misuse targeted advertising.
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 2 weeks ago:
AI should scare you. People will just dump everything on AI and then let it fuck over your life. What happens if AI flags you as a terrorist and your drivers license is suspended, or your health care is cancelled? What happens if AI says you’re fraudulently collecting social security? There’s nobody to blame, because they’ll just blame the computer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s no way your dad could have known what was going to happen. There’s no way people around you could have known that you were in a career path that wasn’t going to work out well for you. Nobody can guarantee the future like that.
The other thing is that even if you’re working in STEM, to follow up with your example, there are thousands of different jobs that all feel totally different to people working them. It’s quite possible that you could initially hate the field, then make some lateral shift, and find a position that is halfway decent. Here again, nobody knows what’s going to be good for you.
If you want responsible career advice, it’s quite simple. Because there aren’t guarantees, you might want to develop several different skill sets, so that you’re in a better position to deal with unknown future changes. If you think you can learn how to do one simple thing and then have 45 years of happiness doing it, flip a coin and hope luck is on your side.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You should have known that there was nothing to gain by telling him what you did. Kids that age are smart enough to realize that if they aren’t being selected to the local all-star team, it’s because they’re not an all-star. If they go to football camp and they aren’t one of the best people at the camp, they’ll realize that they’re not very likely to go pro. But you decided to make it your business at a time when you didn’t need to, and that makes you a jerk.
You said that you’re just being objective and realistic, right, but you decided to tell your son your opinion, and not someone else. If you were actually trying to be objective, you would have told everyone on the team what you thought about their potential. Of course that would be really rude, which is the point.
What you could have done is what many other people have mentioned in the comments. Something about how there’s no guarantee that anyone can make it pro, or how long they’ll last if they do, because random injuries can end your career, and the median length of a professional footballer isn’t very long anyway, so there’s still the rest of life to live.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 weeks ago:
No. Kindness is often a tool for conservatives to maintain power. It’s important, but integrity is more important.
- Comment on Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same? 2 weeks ago:
Not really though. Starlinkn doesn’t scale up well. And it only makes sense in niche circumstances. And it is vulnerable. You could easily imagine a future president just taking it over for national safety reasons.
- Comment on So this is it, is trump god? Will Republicans sacrifice their own well being to own the libs? 2 weeks ago:
That depends what you mean by “well being”. Tons of MAGA folk have voted for Republicans who are cutting the social services they depend on. Clearly that is self destructive, and they know it. Rural hospitals, food stamps, national pension, etc.
That is to say, your comment doesn’t line up with reality. There must be something more going on in their heads.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 2 weeks ago:
Then they will offer shit support to avoid doing so. Simpler and safer to just make unlocking legit from the start.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 2 weeks ago:
Of course it would not.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 3 weeks ago:
Yes. They need to move quickly. Public opinion is already shifting against Trump and Musk, and right now they are vulnerable.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think they are trying to sabotage their own products. It really is that they’re not smart enough to see where is the value is. And this is kind of understandable, right? The underlying software has been copied already. It’s out there. If that company has value it’s only the user base. But that puts management in the strange situation where everything they are doing to make money is making their own product worse. And they kind of know it, right? But they can’t admit it. They can’t think about it clear. Their own mental stability relies on ignoring the obvious truths that they see and read every day.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 3 weeks ago:
“risking”? No no no. “promising”