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So we’re currently at the ‘apology that actually makes things worse’ phase, which means just a few more days until ‘unconditional surrender but even so nobody will ever trust you again’

Adding 40% to 0 is still 0 - we need to add, like, a million %.

Mr Musk had initially rushed to embrace the news when Jenna, formally known as Xavier, transitioned at age 16.

To me this suggests that he first thought it would seem hip and contrarian to support his trans daughter, then he realized that actually the people he considers hip and contrarian are all about hating on trans kids now, and so swiftly pivoted to doing that. (I don’t imagine he had any strong feelings about his daughter as a person either way - it’s not like he was around for her childhood changing diapers or whatever)

a) Good for them

b) How long before NVIDIA throws up their hands at the whole thing and does their own Linux distro + pushes all their cloud AI customers to use it? (it doesn’t seem like they’re ever going to be shamed / coerced into actually open-sourcing their driver)

“Hey Niko it’s your cousin SiriusXM”

iOS

I blame Apple for not creating a viable system for paid upgrades; it’s perfectly reasonable for a developer to expect to be paid for a major app update - even if it was largely to support a new OS - but without a subscription, the only way to do that is to launch a brand new version of your app, which loses you all of your carefully cultivated SEO / links / etc. (doing this via IAP is impractical because you can only build your app against one version of iOS at a time; it either supports the new version or it doesn’t)

And I suspect Apple does this because they don’t want people to have to pay money to continue using apps on a new version of iOS, or a new phone; if buying a new iPhone meant forking over $50 to upgrade your favorite apps for it, that might mean fewer people buying new phones.

So don’t blame developers for this, in other words; a lot of them would be perfectly happy to charge users the occasional upgrade fee instead of a recurring subscription, but Apple doesn’t want them to. (they’re also very happy to have their 30% cut of all of that lovely subscription revenue)

A line of guillotines, one for every tech CEO Lemmy doesn’t like (plus a couple of other random people specific instances have beef with, like the Dalai Lama)

All-time classic Verge article on this subject:

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

I’d probably use it more if there was a browser/desktop app. But I’ve got like 1% as many followers there as I do on Mastodon, so I don’t think I’d post anything regardless.

Well yeah, and the 3/5 clause was essentially a compromise whereby the disproportionately populous areas agreed to accept partial credit for the share of their population that was enslaved.

Oh certainly; my point was simply that in a system where population = influence, letting in a new group with several times as many people as all of your existing groups put together means that that new group effectively takes over.

Gruber’s position is somewhere between ‘internally inconsistent’ and ‘distressingly naive’; quote:

On point 2, I’m fine with starting Facebook with two strikes against it. Put them on a short leash. They start fucking around, Mastodon instances should start de-federating from their product.

So he agrees that the first time Facebook does anything wrong we should promptly de-federate from them, but somehow seems to think that they… won’t? Facebook being allowed to federate is contingent on them being absolutely perfect model citizens, when Facebook have never been model citizens of any group they’ve ever participated in?

The thing is that this isn’t really a marriage of equals; if Meta joins the Fediverse then Meta will swallow the Fediverse, simply by dint of having several orders of magnitude more users.

It would be akin to India applying to become the 51st US state; if we let them in, they’d end up controlling 80% of the House and the Electoral College and the US wouldn’t really be the US anymore.

This seems like a good compromise; defederation is an extreme step and ought to mostly be reserved for behavior that threatens the whole network (rampant spambots e.g.).