irotsoma @ irotsoma @lemmy.world

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It's all just rigged gambling. That money won't benefit the company at all. The investors just sold all their stocks to the hedge funds and retirement funds for them to lose money on, like always. The IPO was just a way to pay off investors and let executives cash in their stocks. I'd love to know what restrictions on selling came with the stocks that were given to regular employees and users/mods. Like are they allowed to sell right away or do they have to hold it for some period of time?

Problem is that shared infrastructure shouldn't be operated for profit. But American conservatives seem to think that's the way to go. If infrastructure is shared, then there's every incentive for a business to sell even if the infrastructure can't handle it.

That being said, it's a required thing. This is why we have society in the first place. If every customer had to have their own cell infrastructure, it would be a mess and a waste. I mean you are sold unlimited bandwidth at let's say 1Gbps on 5G. There are about 1 cell tower node for every 1000 people in the US across the country. If we build enough infrastructure for everyone to use it at full speed each tower node would then need to be able to handle 1,000Gbps. That's just not possible with current technology. So should we build one tower node per person plus all of the cabling and routers to handle that much traffic? Does everyone really need to be able to download a gigabit of data every second of every day? What would you do with that data?

What internet infrastructure is designed for is peaks of up to that speed for short bursts. Not sustained speeds. And then sharing that infrastructure. Just like if everyone were to turn on their water at the same time, no one would get more than a drip, but does that ever actually happen in real usage?

The difference is that water infrastructure is owned collectively, so it is more equitably developed to make it available to all as equally as possible, rather than just to those who pay more for it.

Laptops have large screens and windows software isn't designed to be data efficient. Unlimited data doesn't mean at full speed infinitely. They sell way more than they can support otherwise it would be impossible to support more than a few users at one time on a cell tower.

It doesn't work, for point 1 very well though. The tech is fine, but the way it's presented to users is that it's way more accurate than it actually is. That's marketing rather than a technical problem. Second, the tech is not as good at recognizing non-white people. It's just a fact that there are more pictures of white people to train the tech on since white people have historically had more access to photography among other reasons. And the models used to create most of the tech was built to favor facial traits that are more likely to differ in white people.

So, the likelihood of high probability matches is much lower so the likelihood that the highest probability match that is made is actually much lower probability of it being an actual match means the bad matches bubble to the top and get accepted as real. And these kinds of uses are more interested in a "better safe than sorry" stance and they aren't sorry about killing the wrong person, only about not killing the right one. So they're perfectly as happy killing many people that are possible matches as they are one person that's the correct match.

Because non technically savvy people get comfortable and it's always difficult to get them to move, so everyone who wants to change, can't because they end up alone and social media only works if you have people to be social with. Younger people will have the same problem with TikTok and the like when their friends age and they want to move. Only new generations start with a clean slate and can get all their friends to start out at the new sites.

I think they were fine before, because they were offering the best experience for the people who want someone else to configure things for them and make decisions on privacy, security, etc., for them. Problem now is that they no longer offer much in the way of brand new user experiences that no one else offers, and additionally they don't prioritize the user's privacy and convenience and prioritize how much money they can make with the centralized user information they control and don't allow the user to make decisions on their own privacy and security.

Perhaps, but it's a low impact, high reward thing. The amount of CO2 it conserves per person affected by the change is low and the people who are affected can easily afford alternative transportation. People who drive gas vehicles often have no alternative transportation available because they can't afford new cars, don't have access to charging, and/or don't have access to public transportation and so need that transportation in order to survive. People with private planes can fly on public planes, use slower transportation methods, or invest in lower emissions planes and not have any impact to their ability to survive.

Nope. It made it worse if anything. It takes up so much of my time and exhausts me so much both physically and mentally, that I have to give up too much in order to accommodate it. Plus being ND, I can't form habits, so it requires the same amount of energy and talking myself into doing it every time. And I don't know when to stop, so I always overdo it, because I'm always "past my limits" so when someone says to "push just past your limits", I push until I literally can't move my muscles anymore. I have tons of willpower so there's no boundary except complete physical collapse for me.

That will never work either. They'll just transfer it to a subsidiary towards the end and then shut down the company. Then there's no one to enforce the law on.

You don't need Windows to use a computer. There are tons of flavors of Linux among other options. There are plenty of manufacturers who sell Linux boxes and you can always build your own. Microsoft just pays a lot of manufacturers to bundle Windows in the cost, but not all.

Which one? There are several. I personally like Cinnamon for a Windows-like experience since I have to switch back and forth to windows for work. And Plasma quite attractive if looks matter more.

It's common to block an IP if the majority of traffic from that IP is not the kind of traffic you want.

Why do you need a VPN to access it? If you're protecting privacy, VPNs don't block browser-based tracking, only obfuscate where you're connecting from or preventing man in the middle type attacks from your ISP, but usually that can be better avoided simply by using secure DNS technology. Only other thing is hiding what sites you're connecting to from your ISP. If you can't change ISPs, that can be worked around by setting up a trusted, cheap VPS or something as your VPN exit point so you have your own IP address.

The Reddit IPO is about one thing only, executive pay day. They are trying to get the price as high as possible and get stock into the hands of as many people who actually would like to see Reddit succeed as possible (regular employees, mods, users, etc.). You can't short a stock of no one is holding on to it and you can't sell if no one is buying. No knowledgeable person would expect the stock not to plummet after it is tradable. So they're trying to pad out the numbers with as many of the few remaining loyal Redditors as possible.

He'll just claim that Chubb can't collect because he's president (regardless of whether he wins or not, he'll claim he did just like last time). No way they'll get anything from him. He obviously has connections in the company to get that through.

Nah, lots of places try to make interviews as unbearable as possible. It's "how they judge your ability to work under pressure". Like my previous employer would fly you in seemingly with as many layovers as possible so you're exhausted by that night. Put you up in a crappy hotel and make you come in super early. Put you in a tiny room and make you stay there for about 9-10 hours of intensive back-to-back interviews with a 30 min box lunch break. Pretty similar tactics as the military. And it's not uncommon in tech.

Hire a tiny spider? 🤣

No, it's been pretty common in the last decade or so. First they added mediation clauses mostly just to scare people into using mediation instead of suing. But once they realized that courts were enforcing the clauses even though most legal experts assumed that they weren't valid since most people couldn't reasonably expected to read EULAs much less understand them and they were being added to things that people didn't reasonably expect to have complex legal implications, they realized they could put other stuff in there and have it enforced. So now there's tons of shady stuff in some of them.

Same thing as those companies that would send you a check for like a dollar that looked like it came from a legit source, but really was a marketing campaign paying that legit source for their customer lists and to put their name on it, and in the signature line on the back they'd add a bunch of text saying you agreed to sign up for some expensive service or whatever. People would cash the check without realizing what it was and then the company would sign them up for something and it was allowed for a long time even though many legal experts said it shouldn't be legally binding.

Every company has started doing that. Almost every EULA now has clauses forcing you to give up your right to class action lawsuits and jury trials and to use corporate-friendly mediation instead.

Nice to see a reasonably sized fine. In the US it would be like 5 million and they'd spend 10 times that fighting it in court and still not affect their profits for the month.

Too bad it was ejected from the cannon. I want to see more Shirley Manson terminator.