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Tweetbot is dead! Apollo is dead! Long live Ivory!

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dangillmor, to random
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A classic in arrogant web design: NY Times constantly puts a popup over articles in my mobile browser, telling me why I should install the app. The "negative" choice is to say "Not right now" when what I really want is a "Never" option.

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor Right, if I wanted the app I would’ve said yes one of the previous hundred times.

And in fact I did have the app. Didn’t like it. Where’s the “app was worse” button?

daringfireball, to random
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Instagram Is Testing ‘Unskippable’ Video Ads
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/03/instagram-unskippable-ads

hunterhacker,
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@daringfireball Ads will be a good reminder to put down Instagram and do something productive, break is over

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Having read and watched through all the iPad coverage, it really seems like a lot of people are aligned on the top items where iPad falls down

• The Files app infrastructure
• The too-restrictive audio system
• Background processing
• Multiple user support

"Just put macOS on it” is the fallback for most criticism, because it's hard to articulate just why iPadOS doesn’t cut it. And the "Where's the Calculator?” discourse isn't about a calculator app, it's about the missing apps of the core OS

hunterhacker,
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@stroughtonsmith Yes yes yes. Got my new iPad and wanted to download some Netflix shows for a flight. Can’t leave the app or the download stops. Silliness.

daringfireball, to random
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Apple’s ‘Crush’ Ad for the New iPad Pros Is, Well, Getting Crushed
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/08/apple-crush

hunterhacker,
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@daringfireball People always gotta be negative online. I enjoyed the spot. I enjoyed the reverse version too.

dangillmor, to random
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Stack Overflow's deal with "Open"AI is prompting the site's contributors to remove their posts and close their accounts. Good for them.

The "AI" cartel is telling the people who created and populated the open web that they were suckers.

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor I don’t get the concern. I wrote my answers on SO freely, without expectation of payment, to help others. I figured SO would make some bucks on it but so what. They made a nice site. What do I care if my SO answers also now go into the GenAI ecosystem to give better answers there. Why am I a sucker?

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

hunterhacker,
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@ben Why do people care if someone like me gets your excellent answer to a coding question by typing my error message into Google (forwarding to SO) or into ChatGPT?

In neither situation were you getting paid. In both situations the middle man makes a buck. In both situations I’m thankful you spent time helping me.

Is it that with ChatGPT I don’t know who to thank?

nixCraft, to random
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Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

hunterhacker,
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@nixCraft I never expected to get paid for my SO answers. I wrote them so freeloading developers could freeload on me. I always expected SO as a site would make a few bucks to run the show. My answers were my donation to the universe. What’s the problem here again?

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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By banning (or forcing sale of) TikTok (which I loathe), Congress -- Democrats as well as Republicans -- and a Democratic president just performed extreme censorship of the Internet.

They claimed it was for your privacy, but that is a flagrant and stupid lie.

They believe you have no privacy rights, and deserve none, and have made that clear again and again.

We need public spaces controlled by the public, not rapacious companies and control-freak lawmakers.

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor I’m very ok if the rule is: media companies controlled by adversarial governments can’t operate unfettered in our country.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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The DoJ's antitrust suit against Apple could be more focused, IMO, but it does go to the heart of an issue that is crucial: The company acts, consistently, in anti-competitive ways. It is a corporate bully. It has loud, public contempt for any kind of regulation. It is a greedy control freak.

(Not to mention epic tax dodger.)

If the suit forces, or persuades, Apple to back off from its arrogance, that will be a victory for competition, for the public good, and especially for Apple's customers.

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor Tax evasion would mean they’re doing illegal things. Is that really what you want to say?

I want to nod along with your posts but then you take things into silly town.

dangillmor, to random
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You should call your House member's office and demand an answer to this question:

"Why are you trying to ban TikTok or force its sale on privacy grounds while you do absolutely nothing about rampant privacy abuses by U.S. companies -- which are free to sell private information to anyone with a checkbook?"

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor The reason I’m personally concerned about TikTok isn’t privacy but the fact the playlist is being manipulated by a foreign government. It’s a dream way to pipe propaganda, should the need arise. You can’t have millions watching a series of videos a foreign government wants.

dangillmor, to random
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How it works now:

  1. "Open"AI, Microsoft, Google, et al vacuum up everything they can find, then regurgitate it, filled with BS.

  2. It's such a novelty that pundits go gaga.

  3. Investors pump billions into AI companies, which need more and more stuff for their databases.

  4. Web services where we create or store information sell it to the AI companies unless we a) discover that they're doing it and b) opt out.

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor To give you a bit of optimism in your life, ChatGPT has been absolutely amazing at analyzing code. It’s not always perfect but it’s shockingly good and I’m so happy it exists. It’s definitely not just regurgitating.

taylorlorenz, to random
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A Tesla employee who worshipped Musk died in a fiery crash on a road trip in which he relied heavily on Tesla's "full self-driving" system. Tesla never publicly acknowledged his death and quickly replaced him. His widow says she now feels like "we were just guinea pigs."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/

hunterhacker,
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@taylorlorenz To give the counterpoint, I love my Tesla self driving and have used it for 50,000+ miles. Still, I’d never drive intoxicated. Like a pilot using autopilot you’re still in charge and responsible.

willoremus, to random
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A Tesla employee who worshipped Musk died in a fiery crash on a road trip in which he relied heavily on Tesla's "full self-driving technology." Tesla has never publicly acknowledged his death and quickly replaced him. His widow says she now feels like "we were just guinea pigs."

A @washingtonpost investigation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/tesla-full-self-driving-fatal-crash/ by Trisha Thadani, @faizsays, @rachellerman et al.

hunterhacker,
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@willoremus @washingtonpost @faizsays @rachellerman @dangillmor Man drives with blood alcohol level more than 3x the legal limit. Kills himself. There’s a reason he would’ve gone to jail if pulled over.

dangillmor, to random
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Tesla's "Autopilot" saga has been series of deceptions. But Musk and his company have used every sleazy trick in the book to insulate their consistent malfeasance from accountability.

Maybe, just maybe, that's going to change.

People who've bought into Musk's lies should ask ask themselves some searching questions. (Sadly, they won't.)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/elon-musk-tesla-crash-1234930544/

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor Just gotta say, I use Autopilot every day and love it. Not getting into marketing and politics, it’s amazing and I’ll never buy a car without it.

shoq, to random
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Tesla’s Autopilot recall reflects the real-world risk of Elon Musk’s hyperbolic promises.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/tech/teslas-autopilot-recall-elon-musk/index.html

hunterhacker,
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@shoq I love my Autopilot and hope government bureaucrats didn’t just force Tesla to nerf it.

arstechnica, to random
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Ford F-150 Lightnings will soon offer home AC power, possibly cheaper than grid

It's only one truck and one thermostat, but it could be the start of a V2H wave.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/ford-f-150-lightnings-will-soon-offer-home-ac-power-possibly-cheaper-than-grid/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hunterhacker,
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@arstechnica The biggest challenge for solar is that pesky nighttime without any sun, so this could help. Charge in the sun, draw down in the night, repeat.

dangillmor, to random
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The NY Times frequently urges me to download its spyware app, and I always decline, but "no" isn't one of the options. The closest thing to that is "Not Right Now". Which means they won't stop asking no matter how I feel about it.

You expect that from, say, Google. But it's crappy behavior by the top news organization in the U.S.

hunterhacker,
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@dangillmor Same frustration here. It a papercut UI pattern. Not deadly but sure annoying.

arstechnica, to random
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Alexa just cost Amazon another $46.7 million

"Alexus" voice assistant demoed 6 months before Alexa reveal, patent lawsuit said.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/alexa-just-cost-amazon-another-46-7-million/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hunterhacker,
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@arstechnica Didn’t Star Trek come even earlier?

fraying, to random
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Every well-meaning self-driving car advocate has been a pawn of giant corporations that couldn't give a shit about their cars running over kids.
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/

hunterhacker,
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@fraying Apparently they had a hard time telling if a detected person was an adult or child reliably. Which is different than not detecting kids. But which headline gets more engagement?

hunterhacker,
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@fraying As a nerd I just prefer honest dealing when handling complex topics.

arstechnica, to random
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Tesla Autopilot not responsible for 2019 fatal crash, jury says

It's Autopilot's second big jury win in California this year.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/10/tesla-autopilot-not-responsible-for-2019-fatal-crash-jury-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hunterhacker,
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@arstechnica Dude drove drunk. Clear to me who’s to blame.

timbray, to random
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Why turning off face-unlock on Pixel 7 makes you safer: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/09/19/Pixel-7-fingerprint-reader

hunterhacker,
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@exchgr @jwz @timbray Spamming the power button also works. Just press it a lot like you’re in a panic. You’ll get a pop up of emergency choices and biometrics will be disabled.

TheWarOnCars, to random
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Not only did two driverless cars block an ambulance from taking a critically injured person to the hospital before he died, but the victim needed to go to the hospital in the first place after being stuck by the driver of a different car.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/technology/driverless-cars-cruise-san-francisco.html

hunterhacker,
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@TheWarOnCars Person was killed by a human driver, right? Nobody said auto driver cars are perfect but human drivers can be real rubbish.

arstechnica, to random
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Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken

Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/tesla-exaggerated-ev-range-so-much-that-drivers-thought-cars-were-broken/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hunterhacker,
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@arstechnica I switched my M3 to a simple percentage display right away. Mileage depends on so many factors: speed, temperature, incline, wind (matters a lot!), and driving style. There’s a reason your phone doesn’t say how many hours of battery are left. That said, my car is rated at 310 miles or something, and it gets 250 realistically. My gas cars didn’t get the promised mpg either.

QasimRashid, to random
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EIon Musk’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $249B

Jeff Bezos’s Wealth
2009: $6B
2023: $153B

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $105B

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
Worker tax rate: 13%

Pay workers.
Tax Billionaires.
Save our economy.

hunterhacker,
@hunterhacker@mastodon.social avatar

@QasimRashid The simple fix is to not do a stepped up cost basis on inheritance. The idea that you can build a portfolio like that and so long as you never sell you never get taxed at all… that’s insane to me.

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