I feel like it's histrionic nonsense.
For a lot of the stuff listed -- particularly the legal stuff -- the potential for problems may indeed exist, but the the way the post paints everything is like there'll be a cop car immediately dispatched the moment anything happens.
Companies end up out of compliance with rules and regulations every day. Some of the biggest companies on earth are presently out of compliance, know they're out of compliance, and the regulator knows they're out of compliance, and the world keeps turning. Even if theyre "caught", it isn't the end of the world. Facebook keeps getting hit with gdpr fines, it says "oops", pays them, and moves on with its day. Facebook has 20 times the staff twitter had at its peak.
Moderation issues are a dead issue for me, because Twitter already had terrible moderation. Remember, this is a website that was already fighting in court because it refused to take down child porn. that wasn't because Elon Musk owned the site, he didn't own the site at that time. If you looked for it, there were all kinds of terrible stuff that were fully allowed and the site didn't end. Twitter is where all the bad campaigns to end innocent people originated, because twitter allowed that sort of thing.
Technical issues could be a thing, but notice how many of the risks are "If we make a broken change". In other words, as long as nobody breaks the site, the site won't break. I've had this first-hand, where something works forever and you make a change and then have to deal with the consequences. Even if it's a bad problem, the world doesn't end. Every major website has had issues in the past 24 months. None of them have failed as a result.
From where I'm standing, I think you could probably maintain twitter with a few hundred competent people maximum. You don't have people shoveling coal into the tweet furnaces, and I think the excesses that were revealed regarding twitter staff and twitter offices reflect that. The stories of people who work a day a month and pull full paycheques are probably real.
In the twitter poster's defense, this is histrionic nonsense if you're trying to make a prediction about the next few weeks of twitter existing, but it excellent work if you're trying to manage risks and identify potential problems so you need to list all the things that could happen and the potential consequences so you can mitigate those risks. I've created documents just like this listing all the risks of a thing, looking at the chances of it happening, the thing that happens, and what the potential consequences could be for the purposes of preventing those things from happening. Thing is, when you're doing stuff like that you're intentionally ignoring "rubber meets road" things like I've written above because nobody wants to be the Ford Pinto manager measuring the number of deaths and lawsuits against the cost of the recall.
For a lot of the stuff listed -- particularly the legal stuff -- the potential for problems may indeed exist, but the the way the post paints everything is like there'll be a cop car immediately dispatched the moment anything happens.
Companies end up out of compliance with rules and regulations every day. Some of the biggest companies on earth are presently out of compliance, know they're out of compliance, and the regulator knows they're out of compliance, and the world keeps turning. Even if theyre "caught", it isn't the end of the world. Facebook keeps getting hit with gdpr fines, it says "oops", pays them, and moves on with its day. Facebook has 20 times the staff twitter had at its peak.
Moderation issues are a dead issue for me, because Twitter already had terrible moderation. Remember, this is a website that was already fighting in court because it refused to take down child porn. that wasn't because Elon Musk owned the site, he didn't own the site at that time. If you looked for it, there were all kinds of terrible stuff that were fully allowed and the site didn't end. Twitter is where all the bad campaigns to end innocent people originated, because twitter allowed that sort of thing.
Technical issues could be a thing, but notice how many of the risks are "If we make a broken change". In other words, as long as nobody breaks the site, the site won't break. I've had this first-hand, where something works forever and you make a change and then have to deal with the consequences. Even if it's a bad problem, the world doesn't end. Every major website has had issues in the past 24 months. None of them have failed as a result.
From where I'm standing, I think you could probably maintain twitter with a few hundred competent people maximum. You don't have people shoveling coal into the tweet furnaces, and I think the excesses that were revealed regarding twitter staff and twitter offices reflect that. The stories of people who work a day a month and pull full paycheques are probably real.
In the twitter poster's defense, this is histrionic nonsense if you're trying to make a prediction about the next few weeks of twitter existing, but it excellent work if you're trying to manage risks and identify potential problems so you need to list all the things that could happen and the potential consequences so you can mitigate those risks. I've created documents just like this listing all the risks of a thing, looking at the chances of it happening, the thing that happens, and what the potential consequences could be for the purposes of preventing those things from happening. Thing is, when you're doing stuff like that you're intentionally ignoring "rubber meets road" things like I've written above because nobody wants to be the Ford Pinto manager measuring the number of deaths and lawsuits against the cost of the recall.
I would absolutely argue that that time came, and the people who swore the loudest that they would never be the one holding their arm up were right there.
The problem is, they made the mistake of assuming the problem was with the specific symbol, the specific action. In reality, what really mattered was the specific principles, and so those people were tricked into supporting the same thing yet again because while the message remains the same in principle, the symbols changed and thus the gullible were tricked.
The problem is, they made the mistake of assuming the problem was with the specific symbol, the specific action. In reality, what really mattered was the specific principles, and so those people were tricked into supporting the same thing yet again because while the message remains the same in principle, the symbols changed and thus the gullible were tricked.
It's a great technocratic move: disregard reality and instead focus on finding experts who will say what you want instead.
Elitism at its best.
Elitism at its best.
"I'm going to mastodon" is the new "I'm moving to Canada"
Except US the country isn't as addictive as Twitter. Most of these people would suck dick in a dark alley for a hit of Twitter.
Except US the country isn't as addictive as Twitter. Most of these people would suck dick in a dark alley for a hit of Twitter.
I think almost every admin has seen some very weird reports in the last week.
Maybe it's time for the big Tech refugees to go back where they belong. They clearly want to have the power to report anything that makes things feel remotely weird in the pants.
Maybe it's time for the big Tech refugees to go back where they belong. They clearly want to have the power to report anything that makes things feel remotely weird in the pants.
I really really really wanted to be ready, but it's not ready.
But for whatever it's worth, when I bought my first Android phone, that wasn't ready either. I think Linux is more ready now than Android was then.
At some point in the near future I would like to pick up a pine phone pro to see if additional hardware can be thrown into the problem. I tried the Nexus 5 and pine phone, and neither one of them can really drive the software well enough.
I will say that there are some non-standard forms of Linux that are much closer. The Ubuntu phone is basically usable at this point, but it's sitting in an evolutionary dead end since it doesn't share the ecosystem with the rest of Linux. Same with sailfish which worked pretty well.
For me, so Way Forward is going to be Linux on phones running xorg or Wayland so that in addition to specialized applications designed specifically for smartphones, you also get the entire catalog of Linux applications that will run on whatever architecture the phone is.
But for whatever it's worth, when I bought my first Android phone, that wasn't ready either. I think Linux is more ready now than Android was then.
At some point in the near future I would like to pick up a pine phone pro to see if additional hardware can be thrown into the problem. I tried the Nexus 5 and pine phone, and neither one of them can really drive the software well enough.
I will say that there are some non-standard forms of Linux that are much closer. The Ubuntu phone is basically usable at this point, but it's sitting in an evolutionary dead end since it doesn't share the ecosystem with the rest of Linux. Same with sailfish which worked pretty well.
For me, so Way Forward is going to be Linux on phones running xorg or Wayland so that in addition to specialized applications designed specifically for smartphones, you also get the entire catalog of Linux applications that will run on whatever architecture the phone is.
I cannot believe that I have to tell people this: If somebody stabs you with a spear, you do not end with a vagina on your chest, you end up with sucking chest wound. They're quite dangerous, you will likely die.
https://youtu.be/IhhLcZQ2zD0
I've been really getting a kick out of seeing these old games getting the raytracing treatment.
I've been really getting a kick out of seeing these old games getting the raytracing treatment.
A government that doesn't respect the rule of law will find ways to make their will work.
Oh look, an ad for my book. Well, guess the CRTC can send thugs in to kick my servers off the wall.
Oh look, an ad for my book. Well, guess the CRTC can send thugs in to kick my servers off the wall.
1. You want us to support current thing.
2. You say everything is political.
3. You say that because everything is political, to not enthusiastically support the current thing is to oppose, because "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists"
4. Therefore we are npcs because your philosophy tells us we oppose everything by default because we don't automatically agree with current thing.
Checks out.
2. You say everything is political.
3. You say that because everything is political, to not enthusiastically support the current thing is to oppose, because "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists"
4. Therefore we are npcs because your philosophy tells us we oppose everything by default because we don't automatically agree with current thing.
Checks out.
This is the Trudeau government. They don't respect human rights, and they will incorrectly use any law that comes even close to silence any dissent.
Besides, I'm not using facebook or twitter. I'm using my own website, hosted on my own hardware. Why should the CRTC get any say in what I have on my own website or the order I display it in? How is that not interfering with my right to speak, or my right to listen to my users?
Besides, I'm not using facebook or twitter. I'm using my own website, hosted on my own hardware. Why should the CRTC get any say in what I have on my own website or the order I display it in? How is that not interfering with my right to speak, or my right to listen to my users?
There are multiple pieces of legislation. Bill C11 is an internet censorship bill that is different than Bill C13 the "paying for links" bill.
Handing control of censoring the Internet to the CRTC is effectively nationalizing the Internet, bringing it under direct control of the federal government.
I'm not sure if I'll be continued to be "allowed" to run any of my websites under this new nationalized Internet.
I'm not sure if I'll be continued to be "allowed" to run any of my websites under this new nationalized Internet.