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by fleddr 4y ago
Yep. It will be hilarious to see once Gen Z owns homes. Watch attitudes change.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Mastodon will not be the next Twitter, for many reasons. It doesn't scale. A influx of some tens of thousands of users already breaks half the fediverse. Absorbing this relatively small growth means an instance owner has to reach deepl
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by fleddr 4y ago
You can't compare the good faith web from 1996, which consisted of a bunch of nerds blogging, to today's web. Everything of any importance in our society moved online, and much of it needs monetization. And since on average users
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by fleddr 4y ago
Well, once you finish reading, you'll understand that the outcome of this project was in fact disappointing. Which was the entire reason for the hate campaign.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Well, AnIdiotOnTheNet, perhaps you could be more of a role model yourself by not making baseless assumptions. I've been on the web since 1996 and am well aware of what people can do. Depravity I couldn't even imagine exists. So no
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by fleddr 4y ago
True, empathy is a function of distance.
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by fleddr 4y ago
You know what the most disturbing thing is? "Normal" people do this. We're picturing villains, hateful characters, people with severe mental shortcomings. Deeply traumatized personalities looking for some retaliation. Nope. I
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by fleddr 4y ago
This Mick Gordon guy has to be the most patient, understanding and abuse-tolerant person on the planet. Even after getting screwed over 30 times in a row he still was hopeful for a reasonable ending. I express that as a compliment, even if
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're right, but Twitter basically has been in continuous financial trouble since eternity. In 2016 they almost went bankrupt. They tried to sell then but nobody wanted it. Just before Musk they were also in financial catastrophe mode
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by fleddr 4y ago
Tiktok isn't yet peak engagement. They should add eye tracking so that they know which part of the video you're looking at combined with facial reading to detect your emotional response. This saves users from the enormous effort o
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by fleddr 4y ago
Even the issue you mention, training without consent, won't stop this. Chances are really very low that this will become illegal and enforceable. It would require some very draconian laws, whilst copyright legislation is low priority i
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by fleddr 4y ago
Surely this is a vast exaggeration. Rent should not take more than 25% of your income, 33% worst case. In some countries/jurisdictions that's even part of legibility requirements. If rent/utilities are in the range of 75% or
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by fleddr 4y ago
What exactly is the added humanity that you see? "I take responsibility"? Which means...nothing? For the rest the layoffs are near identical. You hear that you're no longer needed, access is revoked, and severance in both cas
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's honestly pretty risky. I imagine quite a lot of confidential information is in email.
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by fleddr 4y ago
You being downvoted just shows even this community prefers emotional projections over simple facts. There is no Twitter meltdown. Before Musk it was already in grave financial trouble and would have made 800m$ cuts anyway. Musk most certain
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by fleddr 4y ago
Test what? There is a massive problem. The priority is to acknowledge and solve it, not to spend a huge amount of time shooting the messenger or managing feelings.
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by fleddr 4y ago
No, but it feels good to say it. I just think middle management is a recipe for disaster. Their perceived high status means they aren't easily criticized or managed for rational output in a way normal workers are managed. For some, mid
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by fleddr 4y ago
The thing he seems to miss is that people that have business meetings over Zoom/Teams do not actually look at each other much. They're looking at a shared screen showing an Excel sheet, some slide deck, code, whichever. The video
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by fleddr 4y ago
Your take is exactly what is wrong with the culture. An existential problem is not a problem because you didn't sell it correctly. You first need to "massage" the individuals to create some kind of coalition. A coalition will
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by fleddr 4y ago
With a book title like that it's unsurprising that this is her theory. So an entire round of "tech journalists" produces no answer, at all. Pretty suspicious as the answer is obvious: phones are large because people want larg
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by fleddr 4y ago
This revelation just shows that doing the right thing depends on the accidental and rare "good guy" to hold their foot down. It's not something we can rely on. The Elon Musk burn in that sense is distracting. He hasn't d
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by fleddr 4y ago
I was going to write something whiny here, but when I opened the course site I reconsidered. I'm from the Netherlands, and based on that, got a 20% discount. Which is only fair, given that we're a developing nation and all that, b
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by fleddr 4y ago
I recognize those numbers and suspect he's talking about the Netherlands. If so, he/she is being incredibly inaccurate in describing benefits. If you're on a permanent contract, there's a minimum legal notice that depend
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by fleddr 4y ago
Market cap has always been a bullshit metric. It's not liquid.
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by fleddr 4y ago
You know you can talk back, right? When you'd bring that tiny print of code and give your explanation, do you honestly believe a Tesla engineer is not equipped to understand the value of those few lines?
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by fleddr 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. An entire series of anti-social tactics have been exclusively invented on the Twitter network, and then normalized.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm sorry, but on Twitter this is hardly a conspiracy theory, just a normal day. Activists constantly pressure brands, for various reasons.
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by fleddr 4y ago
That was not what I was trying to say. I meant that it's not JUST tech, it involves a huge amount of politics, legislation, privacy, government relations, etc.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Amidst all this doom and gloom and supposedly inevitable failure of Musks' Twitter, I find it interesting to reason about that being a reality. What would replace it? Nothing. As much as I dislike Twitter overall, it's not replace
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'd say it's typical discourse in today's world to consider Musk either a total failure or the greatest genius ever. Everything has to be boiled down to this simple Disney-like binary. Anyway, on this one I consider the chanc

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