RheingoldRiver @ RheingoldRiver @kbin.social

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It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

Absolutely

Sure thing!

sorry, I X'd out of twitter before X X'd twitter, so I can't actually X about Twitter or X on X,

I'll take this at face value and assume u are asking "why is the EPA involved in this and why did they need to do anything, why is the world stupid"

The answer is that corporations who sell vehicles want more profit (obviously) and so they decided to interpret a clause in the Clean Air Act, which says, "vehicles must be repaired to follow the Act" to mean that, "vehicles must be repaired [by the parent company] to follow the Act [because consumers cannot be trusted to do so themselves]"

So the EPA issued a letter saying "corporations you're totally fucking wrong and being assholes, this is NOT the intent of the law. it just says the Clean Air Act can't have a 'haha i repaired it lol' loophole"

yea ik but i meant this one when u can't get via shrug like u can in dc

¯(ツ)/¯`

I'm so confused, I thought Salesforce bought them, but I guess I'm confusing shitty companies. Anyway yeah I also thought the deal went through already, HN was really depressed for a day.

TL;DW:

• Why is the EPA of all government orgs involved in this? A: Because the claim by John Deere was that you can't repair your own shit due to "emissions concerns."
• Okay so what did the EPA do? A: Read this article which is what he reads out loud in the video
• Will this actually do anything? A: Shrug emoji

isn't it pretty hard to determine if it's worthwhile if they aren't going all-in on making it an interesting place with breaking news & accounts for certain types of news etc?

Was quite confused that this is Microsoft Excel and not Excel Esports, the very real esports organization that competes in actual esports.

Maybe edit the title? I completely glossed over this and wondered what is a generic esports event doing in /m/technology for a while until I thought "wait is this maybe not about the esports org"

I would never fucking say s on the internet

A little harsh on /kbin given that it's been released for less than two months and the author doesn't even mention this. Otherwise seems reasonable.

I still think if you look at his investors it spells out leaders who want Twitter not to be viable as a platform for coordinating democratic efforts. So yes, he did it deliberately.

so, I'm just going out on a limb here, but instead of liking something, do you now "x-rate" something?

Keep in mind that it's in a particular context. It seems a bit ridiculous as a headline, but if they were actively using the branding, it might not seem so ridiculous: imagine Facebook (I will not call them Meta) is already operating a social media site for posting short thoughts called X with the TLD social (hypothetically). And they've been operating it as X for 10 years. Then Elon does this. Clearly Facebook has a suit because that's straight-up infringement.

This is a little more hazy because Facebook isn't actively using their X trademark, and it's not exactly the same as Twitter. But they do hold the rights to it (as far as I can tell from the one tweet (xeet?) about it). And it's not (quite) as ridiculous as it sounds.

Also,

Twitter auto-replied to Insider's request for comment with a message saying that the communications department would get back to us soon.

Is this a euphemism for the poop emoji??

Man, that show was terrible. One of the worst-characterized MCs I've ever seen, the quintessential "tell don't show," and a stupid, stupid plot. Even worse now that ChatGPT exists and there's all this "AI" hype. I wish I hadn't wasted 6 precious hours of my life watching that shit.

I've had Samsung phones for years and their software on my current phone has had me thinking I might switch to an iPhone whenever I upgrade (hopefully not soon), so, yeah. It was not this bad 10 years ago.

There's already CIPA, which is bad enough. Let's not add another one.

Current hypothesis: When you use it more heavily, you start noticing issues you didn't see before."

Seems pretty sus to me. I use it pretty rarely and yet the decline in performance has been clear as light to me. Before: I ask it about a common library, it answers perfectly. Now: I ask it about an even more common library, it hallucinates and it turns out SO is more helpful than GPT which is actually quite surprising. In January I was able to teach myself typescript with GPT as my sole teacher. Now I can't get a basic answer about the datetime library. lol.

If this is good enough to allow non-technical people to connect to their BI and generate charts and reports without the need of IT

Big if imo. I can see it getting there within a half decade at the rate this technology is evolving, but today? No fucking way.

Bigger likelihood that motivated (previously) nontechnical middle managers can learn to automate reports themselves with a lot of handholding from AI though, if this is actually as good as GPT4 was at launch though.