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Anecdotal, but all of my friends who are/were huge Musk fanboys have completely shut up about him over the last several months. So there's a silver lining for me, personally, to all of this.
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LifeLynx posted:I stopped using it. Even unbookmarked the Funny Tweets thread, as I didn't want to be tempted to click on a tweet. Delete my Twitter account for inactivity, who cares. The place is the equivalent of a nuclear dumping ground where no cleanup attempt can make it habitable. If the most liberal, progressive person on earth bought it and instituted strict moderation it would still take over a year before it would be usable again. Twitter's current iteration is basically "Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Levitate posted:"uh sure we improved our detection system. By the way and not related at all to our improved detection system, could you please tell us if you detect another spike in child porn?" It's a much better response than "Don't worry, we've fixed it. Nothing else to see here."
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Only Kindness posted:True and on top of that, freakin' Ubisoft, who can't decide from one day to the next whether they hate their customers or their employees more, shut down their forums and moved to Discord. Ubisoft has always been weird about communicating with their customers. For years, if your Ubisoft Connect account was compromised, or you couldn't recover your password for whatever reason, the best way to recover it was to contact Ubisoft via Facebook messenger. Not their customer service email address, not their online forms, and not their forums. You would get a response from any of the latter methods, but it might take hours to day. Facebook? Response within minutes usually. Clarste posted:Video game translators (as in, professionals) also seem to use Discord as Slack for whatever reason. As in, a lot of actual work get coordinated there. This is probably just for simplified logistics - it's not unreasonable to think that most translators are gamers, and this keeps everyone on one platform for all communications.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Everything I've heard is that 'corporate' instant messaging systems are all absolute garbage that makes everything harder for no reason. They make sense in specific use cases, but were over adopted early in the pandemic to replace meetings for remote work, rather than rethinking how people could collaborate more effectively with those limitations.
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Jun 15, 2023 08:01
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Boris Galerkin posted:Yeah and apparently if you just leave the tab open the site will continuously attempt to phone home and failing, so it just does it again and again and again causing the site to self-DDOS itself. Anyone who's holding out for their shares to vest? I'm not sure how that works when a company is taken private, if it gets converted to a bonus immediately, or if it simply gets held during what would be the vesting period and paid out at a defined rate/amount. I can easily see people holding out for X months if it gets them a pile of cash, though.
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Jul 2, 2023 14:40
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Teratrain posted:Anecdotal, and not my field of expertise so I don't know if there are other ways this can play out, but the company I work for was bought out privately recently and all the vesting shares my coworkers and I had immediately accelerated and vested when the sale went through. It's the only reason I could think of why anyone would willingly stay. The only other reason is if someone is trapped there for some reason other than an H-1B, i.e. promoted beyond their area of expertise and can't find another paycheck even remotely close to their income at Twitter. I doubt there are many of those folks, though, given how many people have been let go.
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Young Freud posted:Looks like another social media staple is about to disappear: presorted GIF reactions I like how the claim is that VC money has dried up, when nearly every VC firm - large and small, new and old - is claiming that they have a ton of dry powder. It's not that the money is drying up, it's that more firms are demanding a return to semi-normal fundamentals of profitability, rather than throwing money down an endless hole in the hopes of a big IPO.
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Jul 3, 2023 02:58
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah SV never did get the chance to ruin forums Until Reddit there were just too many forums, too many of them specialized for VC to care. Plus most of them never had anything beyond the most basic plans to cover costs, which were usually "Banner ads, sponsored content/subforums, paid memberships?" Not enough 0's in the equation for VC to care.
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Vegetable posted:I was stating pretty factually that it likely didn’t happen the way she said it did. I didn’t say that she was lying, but don’t let that keep you from grinding whatever axe you appear to have. There's a difference between saying "They probably linked her accounts through internal mechanisms designed to do so" vs. "That story is almost certainly bogus." There is a very good chance that she is factually wrong about how it happened, at a technical level. That's immaterial to the discussion, that it happened at all is important, and an indictment of Meta's continued violations of privacy.
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Jul 15, 2023 09:40
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evilweasel posted:It was a holding company for all the other successful things they were going to do with their google money that weren't google so should be siloed elsewhere, such as.... well they're sure they'll find one eventually. Eh, Alphabet also has things like Fitbit, Mandiant, Nest, and Boston Dynamics used to be a subsidiary. There's also X, which is Google/Alphabet's R&D arm. I'm sure there are others but those are the big ones. It allows for several things: - More focus within each company on their core business, rather than everyone wondering how it operates as a subsidiary of a search engine. - Siloing out each subsidiary's accounting makes it simpler for each business to maintain some level of independence, while Alphabet retains oversight. - There's an argument to be made that it makes future M&A simpler. Alphabet mostly stays out of the limelight, allowing them to tell future acquisitions that they'll be able to retain their identity and branding. There's more to it but those are the core arguments I see. Facebook rebranding as Meta is pure vanity on Zuck's part, Musk trying to rebrand everything as X is him holding onto the past and failing to realize that there is little to no overlap among his various businesses.
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I AM GRANDO posted:What was The Metaverse? Facebook is the same piece of garbage it’s been for ~8 years. The Metaverse was Zuckerberg getting hyped about combining Second Life with VR.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:So there's already an X as an existing Alphabet subsidiary... isn't that going to cause problems with turning Twitter into X? This is a question that only Google/Twitter's lawyers can answer, and I'd bet money that we'll never get an answer out of them.
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Jul 24, 2023 05:01
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If I had to guess, I'd say that Google just won't care - Google X isn't really designed as a profit making company. They won't see Twitter/X as competition. Musk might sue because his fragile ego was harmed that there's another company called X, it was his baby 24 years ago.
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Jul 24, 2023 05:06
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Half of the reason people (read: cryptobros) other than Zuck were excited was because they all thought they were going to be the next Yuga Labs. NFTs that you can wear! And show off to millions of people! And sell, for profit, of which they'll take a small cut!
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Jul 24, 2023 05:15
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dr_rat posted:Even with better tech is it ever going to take off outside of maybe gaming? Like I can see maybe if the glasses were real light and cheap people getting a pair for occasional checking out a video of ancient ruins, or underwater or what ever for a couple of minutes, and of course porn, but other than that? I can see a handful of uses, but they're fairly niche and mostly around architecture and engineering. Designing/buying a new home? Want to walk around and see it for yourself? I don't see a mainstream future but there are instances where it would be nice to visualize a physical space.
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Jul 24, 2023 10:33
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I would take a Bluesky code, I guess. I never really used Twitter but I can see a couple reasons to get in now.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I remember when gmail was invite-only. Nervous posted:I remember when Facebook required a university email login. I remember both of these, and I hate you both for reminding me.
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This one's kinda funny - Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen From the filing here, Kia/Hyundai are essentially claiming that thefts involving their vehicles were less common than their competitors prior to videos of them going viral. As a result, the blame for the thefts should clearly fall on social media, and not the car companies for stopping the installation of anti-theft devices (engine immobilizers) that exist in almost every other vehicle sold in the US. I normally wouldn't side with social media companies in a lawsuit, and I get that Kia/Hyundai are just trying to avoid financial damages - but this is a bit of a reach.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Private companies often have stock too. It’s just held privately. I don’t know Twitter’s particular precise structure post going private, but as a general statement “private company” does not always mean no stock. Some private companies even grant stock to employees. This. IIRC one of the main reasons Facebook went public is because they crossed some threshold of # of shareholders that would have required them to start publishing financial reports similar to that of a public company, so the decision was made to go public.
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Oct 8, 2023 16:39
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pesty13480 posted:Those would be programs that hide most advertisements but goes ahead and opens a thousand 1 pixel windows to click on them all a thousand times to pointlessly cost everyone as much money as they can. Not sure how that concept would work on videos. Does this actually exist?
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Mercury_Storm posted:Why the gently caress are Apple and IBM still advertising on xitter at all. I can kind of get Xfinity because it's hard to think of a more publicly hated company. IBM may be marketing in the hope that they can convince Musk to purchase from them. Musk has a history of making IT decisions for his companies rather than letting the actual experts he pays do their job - marketing on Twitter can get senior IBM folks into the room. This is speculation, but knowing how IBM operates at times, that's my best guess.
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Professor Moriarty posted:Is it time to go back to IRC yet Are you participating with the GBS trivia team next weekend?  Because if so, yes!
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The true doomscrolling.
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