jray4559 @ jray4559 @lemmy.sdf.org

I like me some tech discussion and freedom.

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The age of people willing to go through the effort to start and maintain their own website has LONG since passed.

A nice utopia... but one that won't ever be real, sadly.

Buy a social media company because you know there's no way you'll ever make one naturally

Claim that it's too full of bots and try to walk out, despite having already signed the deal

Treat your new employees almost like slaves because apparently sleeping at the office is a reasonable proposition

Rebrand the social media network for no good reason, tanking value

Drive advertisers away by changing the algorithm that helped make site so good

Lose millions in company net worth and become an internet laughing stock

...Have the bright idea to save the company by also making it a...... banking provider....

?!

ChatGPT? You should see the people addicted to c.ai, they have them beat by miles.

They're trying to clown you because "zipper merging everyone should do it" but they're not thinking about human nature once again.

It's like communism. If everyone was perfect, leaving enough room and always willing to let people in at the top of the lane without slowing down, then it would work.

But all it takes is one asshole, or even someone that is merely distracted by their kid or something, and the guy in the ending lane has no room and will have to slam on their brakes to stop.

And then they somehow have to merge into decently fast traffic from a dead stop, which is not easy. (Unless of course, the other lane stops to let you in, thus delaying everyone)

The system we do now is shitty, but the alternative if you end up caught stranded is far worse.

The people running the instances (currently) don't run their sites as a business.

The federated protocol itself makes no difference; lemmy.world is a good 70% of the content and could essentially run this part of the fediverse if it wanted to, as it is close to a monopoly already.

Thankfully, they aren't greedy owners. They are fine with it "losing money" and not running ads and such.

By the time he was CEO it was already dead. He was right to kill it.

I have my doubts that a three-horse phone race would have been stable in the first place, as one of those three (Android, iPhone was too established) would have likely fallen out of favor. And then, you all would be complaining about monopolistic practices Microsoft would inevitably be doing.

Google is not a good company, but they have treated Android much better than they could be.

No sustainable water, no growth.

But of course, what's reality to stop you when you need more tax revenue to look good come election time?

Ah yes, I definitely had "Republican party needs to call Trump to help decide who needs to be the leader of their constituency so they can govern" on my 2023 bingo card.

Man, this is just a never-ending disaster for the conservate wing, but they totally deserve it for pointing at the far-left Congresspeople and saying how not united the Democrats are.

In a more reasonable government this would be at least a 4 party system, but no chance ever of that with FPTP.

Netanyahu quitting while there are rockets going into his country? Will never happen.

They should put the clown music on every time they come up for a vote. Would be fitting for how much of a clusterfuck the Republican party is right now.

And they were supposed to be the "united" ones...

Figma Bal-

Uhhh... I mean yeah, screw Adobe, go Open Source! Screw Monopolies!

(To be honest, I never heard of Figma or Adobe XD, their supposed competition, until this acquisition)

Man everybody's hiking up prices. Where's the money gonna come from to pay these, though? Considering thanks to inflation a lot of us have to use that money for more important things like... food.

About everyone (including several news sites) have produced false/misleading claims about who launched which rocket and how many were killed and all the other stuff, because this fight is messy, and both sides want to look good.

How many of those misinformers just copied from another source that's supposed to be more trusted?

As if teenagers would actually go on a service that forces them to upload a government ID.

As if most of these migrants won't just get into a getaway car group or even semi truck in New Mexico and cross Texas on I-10.

I appreciate the effort, but...

You could say the same thing about posting on Lemmy. Or a new game in your favorite RPG series coming out. Or Starbucks' newest coffee flavor. Or any number of other comforts.

This is the "don't be depressed, starving children in Africa have it worse" kind of argument. Please don't.

They didn't behead babies!

They only use their own citizens as human shields and parade tourists around like war spoils before killing them. Such shining examples of humanity Hamas is.

It's what needs to happen.

People who can not abide by the social contract (whether by mental illness, addiction, or otherwise) can not be given the same freedom as people who can. They will likely abuse it for their own destructive aims. They need to be forced into rehabilitation, or, if they can't be rehabilitated, a separate housing place.

But...

Those services they need are either overwhelmed or don't really exist in many places, because none of us taxpayers want to spend the money to actually build them, or allow them next to our house. Which is fucked up. And it's clear that nobody is going to willingly increase their taxes to do something about it. So, what then?

I think it needs to be declared like wartime. Set aside a certain area, get as many help people as possible, and move these people over to basically a modified refugee camp, with what basically amounts to martial law to keep the peace as much as they can. Yes, it'll be tents and sleeping bags, which is not good, but they need something. Don't be like the NYC hospital law that sends them in for three days and lets them go back out to the street, because that helps nobody.

Did not realize, damn... so that's zero good decisions I guess. Elon has gotta be the worst owner of any tech company... probably ever, honestly.

Man, Elon just never stops, does he? He has made one good addition to what was a perfectly good Twitter (Community Notes), and at least what, 30 bad decisions? Has there ever been a CEO as stupid as Elon has been to Twitter over this year? I mean damn, even being outed as a child molester and forced to resign probably wouldn't have been as bad.