@Hypx Another announcement of a #vaporware project for #bamboozling investors into funding some more #greenwashing. Wonderful.
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And I say that as a big fan of both renewable energy and aviation. But this won't work on so many levels.
"Traditional" #SAF aren't great, either, but still vastly more practical, and, at least mid-term, a lot greener than typical hydrogen, and compared to actual "green" hydrogen, dirt cheap.
Puuuh. @nextcloud can you elaborate on this, giving some more facts on your "ethical AI" ratings and implementation? I am really interested, but so far this seems like a lot of marketing vapor without content according to the comments. Any facts to clarify? I'm only following the comments on the blogpost - it seems NC has been advertising something that nobody else has developed so far... #opensource#AI#ethicalAI#linux#vaporware
I know I like to rag on #Tesla, but this behavior is becoming commonplace in the new world of over-the-air updated #cars. You buy a car with a set of features, but it doesn’t ship with it. But worry not! It’s coming soon in a software update! One of these mornings you’ll wake up, and your car would have this brand new feature! It’s the FUTURE!
Except you’re not selling me a feature then; you’re selling me the hope of getting a feature that may come in a month, a year, or—in the case of Tesla FSD—probably never. But you are taking my money up front.
I feel this is something the FTC should be regulating. At the very least, require manufacturers to print up front a FIRM DATE on which they will either have delivered the promised feature, or refund the customer some agreed-upon amount of money. Otherwise, I feel like this is just permission for manufacturers to sell a stream of #vaporware for real dollars.
“Tesla Cybertruck Owner Gets ‘Coming Soon’ Message When Trying to Lock Diff”
@bagder iirc it was two years ago that someone promised to implement http3 for #varnishcache "this year". they even had the features planned in a public repo.
we are all doing it wrong. #vaporware is the solution.
In one media article after another we read about how Threads and Bluesky are "decentralized social media platforms." Guess what, you are not "decentralized" if you only have one "centralized" server.
Can we please stop giving #Bluesky and #Threads#Meta credit for being #decentalized platforms when all they have done is announce the intention to actually someday be decentralized. Both are currently entirely #centralized corporate platforms.
@travis It may in fact be rocket science for them to implement, because the app is not based on #ActivityPub, but rather is a reskinned #Instagram, so any federation will be a sidecar interface. But, that even supposes that their real intention is to federate and not to just run a #vaporware marketing scam. By the way, if it is a scam, it seems to be working beautifully.
@stuart Mostly agree, but suspect that they have absolutely no intention to ever federate and they are just running a #vaporware scam. The purpose being 1) cred with regulators 2) positive marketing PR 3) undermine the Fediverse by sowing disention and messing with the #ActivityPub standard.
Also, suspect that the really do fear the Fedi. While we are small, we are free, and they are rightly scared of anything in their space they can not control.
2023: “And yes, it even works with protected content in the US*.
*DRM protected Cable TV channels in the USA are available to be viewed Live via Windows 10, Android and Apple iOS devices. Record, playback and other platforms coming soon.” https://www.silicondust.com/dvr-service/#what
Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from all of the same problems as Mastodon.
Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. 'DIDs' serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they're doing on the server. NONE OF IT.
@sam Not competent to comment on any of this, but have seen a lot of tech vaporware schemes over the years, and do have a question.
Can you tell if Bluesky is actually utilizing the @protocol for the single instance platform they currently have in operation? Could this all be inoperable spaghetti code and marketing puffery with a stripped down Twitter clone operating in the background? Just curious...
Vaporware: Term coined in the 1980s for computer-related products or capabilities that are widely advertised but have not and may never become available. Like, for example, an open distributed social media network platform that is neither open nor distributed.
bsky invite codes transact at insanely inflated market prices atm. sit tight. it’s not worth it. dial down any fomo. just wait until they have to contend with open servers like we do.
@profcarroll It is a lot easier to sell capabilities that you do not have than those which you actually do have. Don't hold your breath waiting for the "distributed" "open" Bluesky vaporware.
@Teri_Kanefield Your caution and skepticism is warranted. The real mystery here is how Jack Dorsey has suckered everyone into believing that he has a "distributed" "open" system, when the current system is neither. Back in the day we would have called it "vaporware", but if Trump proved one thing, it's that we are living in a particularly credulous, gullible time.