• AItoothbrush
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    32 years ago

    Who works at twitter? Tech pays extremely well why work for a shitty company. Just realized they work for a shitty company because they are shitty devs probably.

    • Helmic [he/him]
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      252 years ago

      my man is still big mad that paypal wasn’t called X and is literally just relitigating that decades old argument

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    World’s most spectacular prolonged mid-life crisis from the world’s most publicly divorced dad.

    “LE EPIC X MEANT INFINITY IN AN XTREMENESS WHEN I FELT YOUNG AND INVINCIBLE IN THE 90s! I AM STILL YOUNG AND INVINCIBLE AND I AM INFINITELY XTREEEEME!” billionaire-tears

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    172 years ago

    your boss can’t tell you how to spend/save your money. If that headline isn’t hyperbolic, he’s opening himself up to lawsuits

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    the website that breaks, has no moderation, has full versions of pirated movies, and constantly shows me nazis should also control my money

  • Chemical Wonka
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    102 years ago

    Someone could summarize the latest bizarreness of this lunatic billionaire. I’m too lazy to read.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      92 years ago

      He never got over learning that X is a common variable in algebra that he learned about in the 90s that could mean any quantity. It is EPIC and LE INFINITY and therefore he wants LE EPIC X to monopolize your life, including your banking.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    yea i don’t think employers have access to whether employees have an open bank account.

    e-wallets are not a bank replacement, it is used for small day to day transactions in any country.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    One thing I find very strange about the actually existing information age is that most “tech” doesn’t even solve a problem, or improve upon an existing system. It’s all just selling solutions to problems you don’t have or problems the seller created in order to sell you the solution. Most “tech” companies haven’t really made any improvements to anything they own in a long time. It think the it’s odd/frustrating that improvement to existing solutions is far less “valuable” than new “features”.

    It’s also interesting to me that “tech” companies aren’t even really technology companies anymore. “Innovation” is just a buzzword rather than actual goal/objective. They want to just make new “things” rather than actually improving any current things

    The modern age is weird and I don’t like it.

    • @[email protected]
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      When Twitter came out, there were blogs. Everyone could write articles on their blog, ans RSS allowed everyone to follow anyone.

      Then a new company said : “We will make blogs, but limited to 127 characters”

      That was so stupid. I bet with a friend that it will never be a thing. I lost.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      412 years ago

      That’s the problem with humans having limited needs while the market needs unlimited growth. The only answer after a certain point is inventing demand.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        262 years ago

        And specifically, inventing demand by removing alternatives. Like with IoT devices. They invent demand by removing alternative designs, raise the price because it’s premium, then use those devices to spy on your and sell data to create a sort of rent based model where you pay with your privacy.

        Alternatively they just refuse to even sell you the IoT device and force you to rent it from them.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          182 years ago

          They invent demand by removing alternative designs, raise the price because it’s premium, then use those devices to spy on your and sell data to create a sort of rent based model where you pay with your privacy.

          I HATE SMART TVS

          I HATE SMART TVS

        • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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          222 years ago

          IoT stuff is so frustrating, because the useful aspects are overwhelmed by the need to make it profitable. I DIY’d an environment tracking setup totally local on my network to keep track of things like temp/humidity because I’ve got some sensitive acoustic instruments and I need to know when they need to go in their case/get a wet sponge/break out the dehumidifier. Now I have a historical graph of temp/humidity/air quality cycles in my apartment.

          I bought a “IoT” power strip because I wanted individually addressable outlets for things like lamps and monitors and centralize the interface but fuckin TPlink took away the python API access and requires an account and so it sits in its box until I can possibly reverse engineer it enough to either write my own firmware or just hotwire the relays for my own purposes.

            • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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              102 years ago

              The only way to control it currently is via an app you need an account for so it removes any ability to be an offline device. Its within my skillset to dump the flash and try to patch it, it should be running some embedded linux firmware going by the mediatek chip in the FCC declarations.

              I’ve just had other stuff going on and didn’t feel like dealing with it after the initial disapointment. There is the possibility of regaining the python api but that still requires making a tp-link account and connecting the device to the internet period, so I’m not a fan.

                • Kynuck97 [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  72 years ago

                  For real, so many proprietary applications that will almost certainly just lose support within the decade, rendering the device useless if it can only be used with that particular app.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          92 years ago

          For what it’s worth, it’s not at all an original observation on my part, you can find it in Marx and co and in later writers like Guy Debord.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        372 years ago

        for example computer chips are now cheap enough to put inside household appliances it just turns out that almost no one needs or wants that

        we could use this to create technology to assist the disabled and elderly caring for themselves but that’s not a big enough market so stupid bullshit it is

        • I would have bought so much IoT stuff if they were designed to use open standards and be part of an isolated home network. They could have had a sizable if niche prosumer market, but these companies wanna go public or get acquired, so that’s not enough.

          • Like home security cameras are fine if part of a isolated network, but instead we get people broadcasting the inside of their homes to these tech companies that watch the footage and hand it over to the cops proactively.

        • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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          we could use this to create technology to assist the disabled and elderly caring for themselves but that’s not a big enough market so stupid bullshit it is

          It’s really frustrating that we have the know-how and resources to make technologies for making all sorts of people’s lives safer/easier/better but because it’s not “profitable” we don’t. It’s really maddening to me that we have all the assets and knowledge but not the will due to “THE MARKET©®™” deems it to be unprofitable.

          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            42 years ago

            yeah it’s pretty deeply tragic like the people dying in Africa of diseases that there are cures and vaccines for but copyright law and the fact they aren’t a big enough market to justify the cost of setting up a factory to make the medicine they need means they just die

    • M68040 [they/them]
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      112 years ago

      Just kind of reinventing the wheel (but worse). A series of systems that have begun to turn ingrown

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      152 years ago

      One thing I find very strange about the actually existing information age is that most “tech” doesn’t even solve a problem, or improve upon an existing system.

      One glaring example of this as an ongoing process is involuntary software updates that make the software worse by making it more intrusive, obnoxious, and often jamming more ads into it.