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Comment Re:We'll see (Score 1) 55

I brought all of my gear in a work backpack long before I moved to macs,

It's all on site. There's an office and a workshop. Dongles, which belong in the workshop just sort of wander around all over the place, get put away in the wrong place and so on and so forth. The people with macs, thin PCs with no ethernet ports and broken USB ports are always on the hunt for dongles.

I'm talking about the generic adapters. Things like the USB-serial and USB-can adapters tend to be semi-permanently wired into the respective serial or CAN or serial ports (especially CAN since it's daisy chained the annoying way).

They're not expensive and someone should buy enough to saturate every work surface.

Comment Before Musk (Score 0) 49

Twitter did a much better job with the bots. It did have a tough time because you can't algorithmically police right wing extremism without having it go after American Republican politicians. So right we extremism had to be manually policed. In other words racism and Nazis and whatnot. Musk solution to that problem was to just let the racists and the Nazis take over.

Now ordinarily that would be the company would rapidly go out of business because of lost users. But musk has been pumping money into it, largely with the help of the Saudi royal family. Essentially turning it into a propaganda arm of American billionaires and the Saudi elites. At least if you are consuming content on the platform besides a handful very specific people posting to it.

The real problem is that computers are just too good at figuring out relationships. That's why you can't kick Nazis off your platform using algorithms. A computer will very quickly figure out that the dog whistles the Republicans or whatever your local equivalent is are saying are dog whistles referring to racist or Nazi stuff and it'll go after those dog whistles because the computer knows that when a republican talks about welfare Queens it's no different than a Nazi talking about rounding up black people and gays. The computer knows the dog whistle and you can't program an effective algorithm that doesn't figure it out right quick.

Comment Re:Economic terrorism (Score 1) 176

Does this merger in any way benefit consumers?

Let's not lose perspective here - we're talking about entertainment companies. These aren't airlines, ISPs, or grocery stores, it's boob tube fodder.

If you can't afford it, you don't have to subscribe. When I was a kid, we didn't have premium cable TV channels because my folks thought it wasn't worth the money. We still went to the movies occasionally and rented tapes from the local rental joint (before they all became Blockbuster Video).

There's absolutely no reason that the government should be involving itself in entertainment industry mergers. It's as absolutely non-essential as non-essential businesses can get. The sun will still rise tomorrow if you can't afford to watch Game of Thrones, or whatever the current crap is that HBO is putting out these days. And... there's always piracy.

Comment Re:It's not about the platform (Score 4, Insightful) 49

I don't think it's really about any of this. This smells to me like a pump and dump scheme. Get investors thinking this idea is hot shit because it's based on a well-established brand, and then make off with the money before anyone realizes the world didn't really need yet another microblogging service.

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 176

That all say the same thing.

That Dear Leader is a vile human being with generally unpopular policies being implemented in arbitrary, capricious, haphazard, and sometimes illegal ways? And, outside of right-wing echo chambers, is being covered in a way that reflects that? Maybe, just maybe, he's being covered in a negative way because an ever growing percentage of the population views him and his administration negatively?

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 176

And another thing. Fuckin Benny Johnson, a private media figure, gets a death threat and then he appears at a press conference with fucking Attorney General of the United States

The fucking Vice President of the United States hosted Charlie Kirk's podcast for like weeks.

Unreal.

Comment Re:No such thing as bad engagement (Score 1) 51

That is completely false in 2025. There definitely is bad engagement these days. There's a reason they pulled the advert rather than let it run its course. I don't think anyone here reading this has a sudden urge to go get a BigMac. Simply having a name doesn't make marketing in any way affective or positive.

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