“I can potentially make it really big,” Lin said, hopeful despite the modest earnings.
This sounds like Uberisation, ie relying on entrepreneur wannabes to replace employees and warehouses with self-employed workers and their living room. I’d be curious to see if it allows them to earn a living wage with a 40h week, or if it’s exploitative.
Every service may be abused to spread misinformation. Here, the complaint isn’t that people abuse a service against the owner’s will, but that the service is operated to spread misinformation.
One way to address this could be to look at moderation. Is there meaningful moderation to limit misinformation? A service operated to spread misinformation wouldn’t moderate it.
It’s worse than that. Trump is a danger for the environment and climate. And the whole world will suffer consequence.
EV producers in the US are going to take a hit, whereas the ones in China and the EU would probably be fine.
Sounds like shooting itself in the foot.
I hate HP’s so called smart apps.
HP’s website wouldn’t let me download a driver, but insisted on using their app to detect the printer model (which I already know) and then try to open the corresponding download page for that model (which I already vsited).
Off course the app open the wrong URL and lead to a 404 error. I had to download drivers from another source.
If they don’t know what they’re going to use it for, I’d focus on practical things most non-technical people use laptop for:
The rest can be done on the software side:
YouTube does have the advantage of scale, I wouldn’t expect a federated solution to match their condition, but I’m hoping it can become good-enought as an alternative.
PeerTube isn’t going to provide a solution, they explicitly state this in their FAQ. But there’s no reason why other platform couldn’t handle monetization AND federate through AgtivityPub (or its successor). If Nebula or Patreon wanted, they could join the federation and make some videos accessible this way. The one holdout would be video that are only accessible to paid subscribers, they wouldn’t make them freely accessible via a federation.
From the PeerTube FAQ:
the uploader can display a support button under the video […]
We did not go any further, as we refuse to tie our code to a particular content funding method, that might not fit all communities and deter others. It’s the reason why we encourage developers to use the PeerTube plugin API to create their own monetization system.
I wish more publishers and creators could move away from YouTube, and stop relying (indirectly) on YouTube’s targeted ads.
There’s no silver bullet today, but a mix of alternative platforms (PeerTube, Nebula, Patreon…) and different way to get a revenue (subscription, donations, sponsors and non-targetted ad segments). I believe no alternative solution is feature-complete yet. Hopefully viewers will put some resources on alternatives, not just on AdBlock technologies, and follow creators who move away from YouTube.
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People who want to destroy democracy are influenced by their brain too. But they do react more extremely than others.
The thesis here is consistent with people believing political violence is justified, with human brain’s tendency to form a “us vs them” mentality. But it doesn’t explain why some act more extreme and violently.
People react differently because of multiple factors, such as living through different circumstances, different cultures, being more or less subject to cognitive biases, seing more or less misinformation, … For instance if you see more misinformation about polical adversary being evil, AND your biases and culture makes you more likely to believe it.
That isn’t an excuse for any violence. Understanding these mechanisms may help prevent reduce violence or hate. That’s a worthy goal even if some groups have a much greater responsibility for political violence.
To quote the video: “Your brain is stupid” (mine too) […] “our brain are not able to process the amount of disagreement we entounter on the social Internet”
The video includes an ad near the end. Like most video on YouTube, its creator rely on sponsors. Unfortunately they also placed the same ad at the beginning of the description. It’s kind of repulsive if the first thing you look at is the description.
I wish I could scrub or remove the ad from the description, but it’s automatically imported and I don’t see how to remove it.
That’s true. It’s because the name is misleading. So-called Data Loss Prevention (DLP) features are really Data Leak Prevention features.
I assumed Google Cloud and Drive had the same availability garanties. Searching “Google Drive availability” on Google return the cloud availability page as 1s result. But you’re probably right, there’s never a SLA for free services.
If looking at the page for Google Drive’s paid version one can see some features and claims about the storage’s quality, emphasis mine:
Store, access, and share your files in one secure place
With centralized administration, data loss prevention, and Vault for Drive, you can easily manage users and file sharing to help meet data compliance needs.
I suspect users believe they don’t need to backup because of Google’s claims of high data availability.
On top of that, Drive don’t necessarily keep local copy of data, which is unfortunate if you loose (access to) data in the cloud.
That’s part of it, even if that’s not the only part.
Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.
That’s technically correct. It’s not a restriction. But it’s not a neutral for the market either.
Subsidies skew the market toward specific sectors, technologies, or actors. A company that do not benefit from subsidies is at a competitive disadvantage vs a company that do get subsidies.
A totally free market wouldn’t have any subsidies. But markets aren’t totally free in practice.
Subsidies are typically a good thing when it benefits cleaner tech or improving energy efficiency. It’s the fossil fuel subsidies that do the most harm.
Let’s hope they’re auctioned and sold quickly and don’t end-up in tangled in the legal system for too long. Hopefully this is handled well enough so cars get into the used car market. Selling these for scrap or for recycling is another option but would be more wasteful.
He’s also giving more material to the CoC board by posting this. He’s free to do it but it’s not helping.
I wish he would avoid commenting and stay away from the drama, until he hears from the board if there’s any complaint and what it is.