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by _djo_ 4y ago
Great point, and yes that sort of behaviour change and awareness was hugely important.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
It was handled well by global public health authorities, with education campaigns, targeted vaccinations, early warning, treatment, and growing immunity in the most at-risk populations.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That would only be true if scammers and other professional criminals were not already easily able to obtain stolen CCs and other payment methods. And that's who you're trying to protect against, not the average person.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
It’s clear that Musk, Sacks, Calacanis and Palihapitiya have no idea why the majority of people find value in Twitter enough to keep returning. It seems they think we’d all want to pay for the privilege of reading their tweets and those of
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by _djo_ 4y ago
This is a front page submission on HN, quoting a story from a major news outlet, and the layoffs haven’t even been announced yet. I don’t see any evidence that ‘nobody cares’. Nor is there indication this would be anywhere close to the same
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Musk has openly stated that those without Twitter Blue will have their tweets substantially deprioritised and de-emphasised.[0] [0] https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?...
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Oh please, actually notable conservatives and right wingers with impersonation risk have never had much trouble getting verified. All journalists from Fox News, Newsmax, etc were verified as were all GOP politicians. Those complaining about
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Collecting and then using metrics like these in secret and without transparency for those being measured by them is unethical. The decision may not have been yours, but it's one you've chosen to go along with and support. Maybe yo
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Given the scrutiny of tech CEOs you'd think something would have leaked by now if there was something truly scandalous there. Who knows, maybe he is just really good at hiding it, but so far indications are that he might really be th
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Nope. This was taken on as part of Musk's acquisition which is structured as a leveraged buyout and saddled Twitter with nearly $13 billion in additional debt. Twitter's annual debt service cost before Musk took over was an entire
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by _djo_ 4y ago
If you read through the case history, you can see that the ADA does not have specific language saying something like "websites above size x must be accessible, and that means a, b, and c need to be followed." Much of that has been
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by _djo_ 4y ago
In that sense everything is a product design choice. The point was that having a landing page that goes to a Sign Up option before showing all the content is not necessarily an accessibility issue, it's a decision made to drive sign up
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That's why I said diminishing accessibility and slowly cutting off disabled users. This obviously isn't going to happen immediately, but every new feature will be less accessible and maybe even not provide accommodations entirely.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
So what you're saying is that it's useful for devs to be able to view their own stats for this on a no blame basis, and you have used your privileged position of access to them to improve your own performance, but you don't l
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by _djo_ 4y ago
There are risks in trusting your instance admin, but you can move. Tons has changed on Twitter, including the laying off of half the company including substantial numbers in the Trust & Safety team. I'm seeing people who couldn&#x2
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The point of the fediverse was never to match the scale of Twitter on a single instance. In fact, that's something of an anti-pattern. These are the inherent trade offs of a distributed social network.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Mastodon isn't a commercial entity, so what's the opportunity that's being wasted? Its entire purpose is to provide an alternative model for social media on a non-profit basis. If that doesn't scale to Twitter or Meta le
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Twitter's net loss in 2021 was $221 million, far from $4 million a day, and there's nothing to indicate that had changed before he bought it. The figure he quoted is made up predominantly of the $1 billion in annual interest payme
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by _djo_ 4y ago
He had no access to internals during that time, and the calibre of the 'planning' revealed during discovery in the trial was neither deep nor substantial. There are now reports that some of those laid off are being asked to come b
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The migration tool publishes a message to the instances of each of your followers informing them of your new handle, which in theory then gets updated seamlessly. It was pretty rough when first introduced but seems to be solid now.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
The advertisers began pulling ads after ad agency execs met with him and failed to get satisfactory answers[0] and after he posted that conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi. It didn't help that he ignored and then blocked the head of MM
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by _djo_ 4y ago
None of those are accessibility issues, they're product design choices.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Not the ADA specifically, but American courts have generally held that large commercial websites do need to be accessible in terms of the ADA. That's aside from the cruelty of diminishing accessibility on a major social platform, slowl
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by _djo_ 4y ago
For Twitter users in other countries? Yes. Twitter had been the best of the social media companies (though still not perfect) at resisting subpoenas and other measures from the US government as well as authoritarian countries, but all the p
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by _djo_ 4y ago
I remain constantly surprised that people on Hacker News of all places can be so wrong in their underestimations of how technically challenging a company's problem space is. Building and maintaining a distributed system like Twitter is
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Like United Launch Alliance, Rocket Lab, Northrop Grumman, Virgin Orbit, etc? Also, SpaceX would not exist were it not for a US government decision to fund and develop private spaceflight launch capabilities for NASA and the US Air Force. I
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by _djo_ 4y ago
That depends on which aspects of Twitter you focus on. It has added a ton of value for niche interest areas, open source intelligence and reporting, news from underserved areas or issues, and so many others. The value isn't in the loud
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Twitter was a mixed bag, but it was genuinely useful for news, niche interests, and helping under served issues and communities get more prominence. It's where the kind of open source intelligence that helped to expose Russia trying to
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by _djo_ 4y ago
There are also those on work visas who have a more complicated situation.
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by _djo_ 4y ago
Fair, I should've phrased that better. What I mean is that it's not unique to the ship's chef posting, but a general benefit for any enlisted member of the armed forces. It's also not something that most people place eno

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