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jann, to random
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Amazon faces backlash from users over upcoming change to Prime service - TheStreet https://apple.news/ATIVEFlnHQaOqB-zDEnaQ0A

freediverx,
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@jann
The enshittification will continue until morale improves.

dangillmor, to random
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The level of deceit at Musk's Tesla is really something. It starts with the boss and seems to pervade the place.

@Reuters has done a seriously excellent deep dive on just the latest evidence of a company that keeps fooling people who choose to be fooled. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

Maybe the worst part is that they get away with it. Are U.S. regulators inept or lazy, or worse?

freediverx,
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@dangillmor @Reuters
I'd say it's a combination of corruption with a fanatical idolatry of the wealthy.

Daojoan, to random
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We need a new word to describe the constant fear of leaving entire tech platforms and starting again every six months because they decided posting Swastikas doesn't violate their TOS

freediverx,
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@Daojoan Enshittiphobia

stroughtonsmith, to random
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After creating HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality, which is basically the template (down to the product price) for Apple's Vision Pro, Microsoft is throwing in the towel. If 'spatial computing' really is the future, Microsoft is already writing itself out of the story, just like it did with mobile

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24010787/microsoft-windows-mixed-reality-deprecated

freediverx, (edited )
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@stroughtonsmith
Microsoft's base has always been enterprise customers, not end users. IMO the less influence Microsoft and other enterprise vendors have on the broader tech market, the better. (Although I’ll acknowledge in principle that more competition is better than less.)

dangillmor, to random
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Don't buy printers from HP, period. https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/20/hp-raising-instant-ink-subscription-pricing-significantly/

freediverx,
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@dangillmor
Don’t buy anything from HP.

siracusa, to random
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@ivory I'd love an option (e.g., a right-click menu item) to stop a selected animated GIF from animating in the Mac version of Ivory.

(I’ve had an animated GIF running on my screen for weeks on one of my low-volume timelines because not enough new posts have appeared to push it off the end of the visible region. I've been manually scrolling in the opposite direction just to get it off the screen, but then I forget about it and think there's more posts to read, so I scroll, revealing it again.)

freediverx,
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@siracusa @ivory
Or perhaps the option to disable autoplay of videos and gifs in general.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Pretty interested in the end of year roundup scores for iPad, because it has not had a great 2023 at all. No new products, no real new features other than the leftovers of last year's iPhone release, and less than what I would say was the minimum effort on addressing the issues with the design and functionality of Stage Manager (which should have been done a year earlier, in 16.2).

Even Final Cut Pro/Logic, which don't support window resizing at all, can't save the score

(‘F’ from me. 2/10)

freediverx,
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@stroughtonsmith
My dream is an iPad Pro that could toggle between iPadOS and macOS.

badastro, to random
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It's the holiday season, so what better time to take a deeper look at Uranus?

https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/a-deeper-look-at-uranus-with-jwst

freediverx,
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@badastro
Phrasing!

CanadianCrone, to random

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-bankruptcy-b8e8377dcc45df5f2938ff547228328f How misleads. Headline states: “Alex Jones offers to pay $55 million ….” It implies Alex is being “fair” and “sincere” when in fact, he’s the same slanderous slob he’s always been. The headline should read: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1 Billion for his false & cruel claims that Sandy Hook was staged & parents were “crisis actors”. But he’s trying to weasel his way out.

freediverx,
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@ariaflame @CanadianCrone
The headlines are a big part of how the media frames a story. The average person never actually reads the article. This post is calling out the media, not necessarily a particular writer.

freediverx,
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@ariaflame @CanadianCrone
How a headline frames a story is just as important as the facts within the story. Framing influences the perception of the news, not only telling people what to think about but how to think about it.

Example:

DrALJONES, (edited ) to Israel
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    @DrALJONES

    freediverx,
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    @aproposnix @DrALJONES
    Bernie has passionately decried the IDF's indiscriminate bombing of Palestinian civilians. Full stop. His objection was to a permanent ceasefire with Hamas, a terrorist organization that has made it clear it wants to destroy Israel. Note the difference between calling a truce with a terrorist organization vs opposing killing of civilians.

    freediverx,
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    @DrALJONES
    See my last post.

    freediverx, (edited )
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    @DrALJONES @aproposnix
    “Temporary humanitarian" vs. “permanent”.

    As I mentioned previously, he caught a lot of flak from progressives (including myself initially) for not supporting a permanent ceasefire. But if you read his comments carefully, his reasoning behind the distinction is valid.

    Imagine someone calling for a permanent ceasefire with Nazi Germany in the middle of WWII to stop the slaughter of civilians. Noble, but impractical, naive, and self-defeating in the long run.

    dangillmor, to random
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    Intuit-owned MailChimp goes virulently anti-union. I remember when Intuit was an honorable company, but that was decades ago. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled

    freediverx, (edited )
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    @dangillmor
    Next time I hear them mentioned as a sponsor on a podcast, the podcasters will get an earful from me.

    dangillmor, to random
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    Not the Onion:

    The NY Times editorial page published a "Really, Trump isn't all that right wing, just relax" op-ed today.

    freediverx, (edited )
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    @dangillmor
    The NYT has spent its entire history as the unofficial propaganda arm of American neocolonialism, Wall Street, and the ruling class. They publish diverse viewpoints from the right, the far right, and nazis, but rarely from the left.

    ChanceHMiller, to random
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    BREAKING: Apple tells 9to5Mac that it is suspending Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 sales in the US later this week. https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/apple-halting-apple-watch-series-9-and-apple-watch-ultra-2-sales/

    freediverx,
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    @ChanceHMiller
    Funny how Apple’s views on IP theft have evolved since the days they referred to Microsoft and Google as Xerox machines. And here they’re essentially threatening to take the Apple Watch off the market rather than pay a licensee fee for technology they stole. Massimo is not a patent troll.

    marcoarment, to random
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    A social network’s best days are not when we’re using it mostly to talk about another social network.

    freediverx, (edited )
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    @marcoarment
    I get it. We all need, want, and deserve a feel-good place to escape the daily news cycle of our failing society.

    But for better or worse, the Fediverse is one of the few remaining spaces we have to voice our concerns with like-minded people. And remember mastodon supports filters so you can mute topics or people you might find bothersome.

    I say this as a huge fan and subscriber of your app and podcasts, and I consider your presence as one reason to be here on mastodon.

    stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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    This doesn’t sound good; making ActivityPub integration opt-in (or opt-out wholesale) just means nobody is going to opt in, and there will be no easy way to ask or convince accounts to do so. You will lose a lot of the value of interop immediately, and if somebody has a bad interaction with a Mastodon user they might cut off access entirely with a toggle switch. Block people, block instances, but no master switch or all this is for nothing @mosseri

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    @stroughtonsmith @mosseri

    ianbetteridge, to random
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    There's a post doing the rounds which says that Meta's terms and conditions mean they plan to harvest Mastodon users' personal data to target them with ads. Unfortunately that post is misreading the T&Cs, and cherry-picks from a section which is clearly about Threads users, not "third party service users" (ie. us). Here's the full, unedited section.

    freediverx,
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    @ianbetteridge
    Later…

    video/mp4

    KingShawn, to random
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    Gruber: “Mastodon has seemingly peaked in popularity. It’s a niche for nerds. Mastodon has seemingly no mainstream relevance, and I don’t think ever will. Regular people do not want to use social networks without algorithmic feeds”

    Wow.

    Well, I’m NOT a nerd. I think I’m regular people” and I sure as shit don’t want an algorithmic feed. 🤷🏽‍♂️

    https://daringfireball.net/2023/12/app_store_rankings_as_a_proxy_for_social_network_momentum

    freediverx,
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    @KingShawn
    Let’s just say I consider mastodon more valuable than Gruber’s takes on politics and society.

    He dismisses mastodon because 1) the vibe offends his increasingly right wing views and 2) he’s interested more in celebrity than community.

    freediverx,
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    @angry_drunk @KingShawn
    Back when Apple was was routinely referred to as “beleaguered“, Gruber provided a balanced take highlighting the ridiculous bias against the company and its products. But more recently, he's used his bully pulpit to espouse decidedly right wing takes on various topics that I've found off-putting. He seems very much a fan of neoliberalism.

    freediverx,
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    @drahardja @angry_drunk @KingShawn
    It's a tricky question in Apple's case, because I can imagine some jobs there are more suited than others for WFH. But yeah, he had a rather cavalier attitude about it which I considered ironic coming from a person who’s spent the last two decades working a cushy job from home.

    And this is what troubled me, as I wondered what happened to his measured and nuanced takes on other topics.

    bzamayo, to random
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    Kinda bailed on Mastodon tbh :( Threadsing it up at https://www.threads.net/bzamayo

    freediverx,
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    @bzamayo
    Unfollowed. Bye.

    aral, (edited ) to ireland
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    So, of course, I cut my hand on my scythe for the first time while taking photos of it to sell it (we’ve just bought a little shoebox in Bray and – fingers crossed – we’re moving next week… So! Much! To! Do!)

    Anyway, so if anyone wants a scythe (a very lovely Austrian scythe, I might add, which I’m loathe to part with but we barely have a garden in the new place and I don’t want to scare the neighbours.)

    https://www.adverts.ie/other/fux-austrian-scythe-1-6m-snath-70cm-blade/32429650

    #scythe #ireland #donedeal #forSale

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    @aral
    Do they make a matching pitch fork and torch?

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