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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, wonderful capitalism working as intended. Everything comes down to money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Parking a large truck is also just plain harder.

  • Parking spaces are smaller relative to the size of your car
  • Sitting high up with a huge hood in front means there's less visibility in front
  • Longer cars make it more difficult to judge distance using your mirrors, somewhat eased by the requirement for parking cameras.
  • Longer cars generally have a longer wheelbase, making a worse turning radius

The only saving grace as a driver is that heavier cars can be safer for their occupants, at the cost of everyone else's safety... which most would consider a negative.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Right, most of the complaints people have about Zuckerberg is that he's a stereotypical tech bro ceo lacking a moral compass.

People calling Zuckerberg a lizard person or robot mostly come from how he talked and acted when under intense public questioning by legislators regarding user privacy and their business model. That's a high pressure situation where he was coached on what he could and could not say by legal to minimize the fallout, so his awkward expressions and stilted speech are understandable.

People don't like him because he's a ruthless ceo, and that requires some level of sociopathy pull off. Musk, on the other hand, actively antagonizes people and seems to thrive on controversy. His primary goal seems to be ego-driven, unlike Zuckerberg who's solely in it for the money.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use my HP printer infrequently enough that every time I booted up my inkjet, I had to put it through a printer head cleaning cycle. I'd be surprised if I got more than 20 sheets of paper for each cartridge do to the wasted ink, and the dang thing malfunctioned frequently even after cleaning (streaks, blots, complaining about missing colors when printing b/w, etc).

After switching to a Brother mono laser, I haven't had to do any maintenance in 3 years and it's still on the original toner cart which it came with.

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Eh, you can improve reporting, time usage, and statistics all you want. It won't help people stop making stupid short-sighted decisions. If it isn't middle management, it'll be the people controlling the AI's which replace them.

CEO: "AI, give me a plan to improve profits by at least 10% in the next quarter."

AI: ". Note: enacting this plan will cause talent attrition and there is a 70% chance of -50% revenue over the following 5 years."

CEO: "Sounds great, I'm retiring next year!"

The people up top have plenty information on how to run a long-term successful business, but still choose to make illogical decisions which screw them over the long term. Changing the source of data to an AI just means that the CEO can ignore any feedback or metrics which don't agree with their internal model and incentive structure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All penalties for to large organizations should be based on global turnover. Not only that, they should have a third metric which is based off the calculated benefit the company gained by breaking the regulation.

So if Meta complains it would cost $X to moderate effectively, they should be fined $X * 3 or whatever. If Amazon saves $500B by misclassifyjng its drivers as contractors, they should be fined $1.5T. If the company needs to file for bankruptcy because it was based on illegal practices, so be it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, they're afraid of potential backlash and wanted to float ideas in a safe space.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh wow didn't know that. This is awful - people should defederate from any instances which accept meta money as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The reddit api deadline is July 1st, and most of the 3rd party apps will be shutting down on the 30th. This will likely cause a surge of interest in reddit alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well said. They react with fear to anything they don't personally identify with, and only know how to use fear to accomplish their selfish goals. They aren't the sole source of the fear, but they are certainly happy to stoke the flames and counter any attempts to reason with dangerous rhetoric.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ideally the list of behaviors which trigger suspicion would be expanded over time, yes? Low hanging for first, just because it's easy doesn't mean spammers will program around it unless we check for it.

 

A lawyer almost certainly told execs that this was an illegal attempt to misclassify employees. I think we're getting to a place where if people do things even though a lawyer tells them it's illegal, they are personally liable (jointly with the org itself) for the decision even in the context of a limited liability organization. And if the lawyer is incompetent enough to tell them that it's legal, they need to be disbarred and potentially liable for the damages.

 

What would happen if instead of users swarming existing servers when a fediverse service was put in the spotlight, each user spun up their own micro-instance and tried to federate with existing servers?

There's always the odd person who decides to host a personal fediverse service in their homelab for themselves, but would the fediverse work if that was actually the primary mode of interaction? Or would it fail in a similar way to now where the servers which receive the most federation requests need to scale up?

Presumably the failure modes for federation are easier to scale than browser requests since it's an async process.

 

Mine cried when the little boy in "The Giving Tree" took the tree's branches, and had me re-read the first few pages where he plays with the tree multiple times instead of finishing the book.

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