explosivo posted:

is that cybertruck still allegedly coming out? There are people who have paid some amount of money for one of those already, right?

explosivo posted:

is that cybertruck still allegedly coming out? There are people who have paid some amount of money for one of those already, right?

B-Rock452 posted:

I swear I read somewhere that even if it does come out there is no way it passes any safety tests since it just has a stainless steel frame that won't crumple so it can't pass a crash test

Halisnacks posted:

I don’t know the unit economics of the business, but I assume it is not losing money on each incremental dollar of revenue (happy to be proven wrong on this point).

mobby_6kl posted:

I think they might be finally making... at least one of them?

E the Shaggy posted:

After the shitshow that is Twitter, does anyone really want to trust Musk with a truck that's supposed to drive under water?

quote:

What If This Is All Because Of Twitter Spam?

Elon Musk, and the crowd of venture capitalists he’s surrounded himself with, are really obsessed with spam on Twitter. Which has been something of a head-scratcher for a lot of folks outside of their clique, myself included. I’ve used the site every day practically for 15 years and have had over 50,000 followers on the platform for almost five years now. And the amount of spam I was encountering on the app was maybe a couple of weird tweets or DMs a month, if that — as long as I didn’t mention crypto.

Anytime I tweeted about crypto, my replies and other available channels would fill up garbage. And this was even more pronounced if I ever entered a Twitter Space. The other day I gained 300 followers after a Twitter Space, and 200 of them disappeared the next day. My DMs were, and still are, completely bricked with spam. It was a mess!

I struggle to take anything Musk says seriously, but I do wonder exactly how much his view of Twitter has been colored by the fact his mentions are absolutely crammed with crypto shills. This is, of course, very funny, because it’s his fault he’s associated with crypto in the first place. No one asked him to pump doge coin, but he craves attention from the worst possible people on Earth and, well, he got it, baby.

explosivo posted:

I regret to inform you that yes, there are people who will happily do exactly this.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

I just read a story on the whole Chappelle/Musk thing, and a couple of interesting things stood out to me that weren't brought up in most of the general "Musk gets booed" news stories:

-All the comedians on the show, not just Chappelle, were railing against "wokeness" and "cancel culture". Both the opening acts, as well as Chris Rock (though to be fair, the article pointed out that a lot of Rock's criticism was more aimed at the performative nods towards progression that big media companies tend to do, but still).

-Near the end, when things broke down and the crowd was heavily booing Musk again and Chappelle finally snapped on them when he couldn't get them back on his side, one of the comments he made was that the crowd's booing was a sign of "pending civil unrest" and he snapped he'd like to see what "store" the crowd would "decimate" next, before finally telling them to "shut the gently caress up, with your boos". After watching the footage, it's pretty clear that Chappelle is 100% just another rich dude that's completely out of touch with how people feel these days (as if his misogynistic comments on Kamala Harris after the 2020 election, his TERFdom, and his anti-Semitism didn't already confirm all of that).

Orc Priest posted:

You know what's even better than laughing at this dumb boer?

Giving https://www.post.news a try

It's the first twitter spinoff that looks like it has some real potential. Lots of good accounts are setting up shop there now. There is currently a waitlist to sign up for the site.

2016 article about Instagram posted:

All of the "social media" services want to lock you in. That's been the case for a while. They love their "walled gardens" and they think that so long as they tightly control their users and make it hard for them to escape, they will rule the world forever.
This was the business model of Compuserve. And AOL. And then a little thing called The Internet got popular for a minute in the mid 1990s, and that plan suddenly didn't work out so well for those captains of industry.

But here we go again.

Instagram tries to lock you into their app more than any of the other services. They are hardly even on the Internet at all...

The thing that makes the Internet useful is interoperability. These companies hate that. The thing that makes the Internet become more useful is the open source notion that there will always be more smart people who don't work for your company than that do, and some of those people will find ways to expand on your work in ways you never anticipated. These companies hate that, too. They'd rather you have nothing than that you have something they don't own.

Instagram didn't even really have a web site until 2012! You may not remember this, but it didn't used to be possible to see Instagram photos from a web browser at all.

Mozi posted:

Given that most of Twitter's revenue comes from advertising, which took a nose dive after Musk took over, combined with the new billions of dollars in loan obligations, yes I am certain Twitter is losing money badly right now.

Binary Logic posted:

Tesla stock achieved new Low of the Year today @ $161.74.

Cabbages and Kings posted:

we don't need a twitter replacement, probably (says the person who formed an LLC to run a mastodon instance) but personally I stay away from Post and Hive, and, glaring 1990s web design aside, I basically agree with this take, and I believe post.news operates the same way. Looking at post it looks like they might?? have a web UI?? but I don't see any way to browse content without an account, gently caress that.

mobby_6kl posted:

Binary Logic posted:

Tesla stock achieved new Low of the Year today @ $161.74.

repiv posted:

the more immediate problem with hive is the owners have absolutely no loving idea what they're doing and shipped it with all permissions enforced on the clientside, so by directly poking the API you could edit other users posts, read their DMs, etc, etc

https://arstechnica.com/information...l&utm_brand=ars

Sydney Bottocks posted:

I just read a story on the whole Chappelle/Musk thing, and a couple of interesting things stood out to me that weren't brought up in most of the general "Musk gets booed" news stories:

-All the comedians on the show, not just Chappelle, were railing against "wokeness" and "cancel culture". Both the opening acts, as well as Chris Rock (though to be fair, the article pointed out that a lot of Rock's criticism was more aimed at the performative nods towards progression that big media companies tend to do, but still).

-Near the end, when things broke down and the crowd was heavily booing Musk again and Chappelle finally snapped on them when he couldn't get them back on his side, one of the comments he made was that the crowd's booing was a sign of "pending civil unrest" and he snapped he'd like to see what "store" the crowd would "decimate" next, before finally telling them to "shut the gently caress up, with your boos". After watching the footage, it's pretty clear that Chappelle is 100% just another rich dude that's completely out of touch with how people feel these days (as if his misogynistic comments on Kamala Harris after the 2020 election, his TERFdom, and his anti-Semitism didn't already confirm all of that).

repiv posted:

the more immediate problem with hive is the owners have absolutely no loving idea what they're doing and shipped it with all permissions enforced on the clientside, so by directly poking the API you could edit other users posts, read their DMs, etc, etc

https://arstechnica.com/information...l&utm_brand=ars

Agents are GO! posted:

Something I posted in another thread:

Don't leave, make them ban you. Then appeal it. We are far past the point where account numbers or advertiser angst is going to have any effect, it's not a publicly-traded company any more - there's no shareholders or board of directors to reign Elon in.

Making them ban you makes just a little more work for the moderation team and costs Elon money.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Ideally this would also gently caress up Chappelle 's image but I doubt it lol

explosivo posted:

Is there anyone left? I think most of us who thought the dude was hilarious for saying "I'm rick james bitch" when we were kids figured out he's a rich old out of touch crank after his first netflix special.

Bottom Liner posted:

He earned a lot of new/return fans after his 8:46 special (it was probably the best thing he ever did), but I don’t know if that was before or after the transphobic stuff started.

Extra Large Marge posted:

I found a good replacement for twitter. I go outside and look at some trees. It's very nice.

TulliusCicero posted:

Lmao this piece of poo poo was doing this "I'M TOTALLY A LIBERAL BUT VOTE REPUBLICAN GUYZ" back in May of 2020, when COVID was ravaging the US and Trump was doing loving nothing.

Treecko posted:

Every day I'm glad for my lovely 09 Ford. She's peice of poo poo but has absolutely saved my life from dumbshits driving distracted

Libra posted:

I've been randomly thinking about "only 10% boos" throughout the day and it makes me grin like an idiot every time.

Extra Large Marge posted:

I found a good replacement for twitter. I go outside and look at some trees. It's very nice.

Captain Hygiene posted:

I just wander around the neighborhood and peer in peoples' windows, hoping to see funny pet moments

Cabbages and Kings posted:

Lol. I mean, just lol.

I understand that making scalable software is a difficult problem and that the difficulty scales with the userbase, etc etc

This is just 101 level poo poo, though, like, "no test plan, no security testing, no QA"

loving lol, reading https://www.hivesocial.app/about-us --

Think about this loving timeline for a minute,

June 2019 - founder is "gifted a laptop and begins to teach themselves to program"

October 2019 - Hive's first iOS app launches (!!)

Feb 2021 - Hive hits #1 spot on app store

Dec 2022 - they now have 1.5 million users and 175 employees

Going from "I can't code" to "i have an app in the iOS store" in under five months is fairly impressive, except, uh, building a massive social media network as your "learn how to code" project and then just getting it into the app store when your company (apparently at that time) was self funded and consisted of two people seems like pretty unhinged levels of arrogance.

Not touching this poo poo with a 10 meter test plan.