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Software needs hardware to create economic growth, namely data centers and disposable computers (smartphones, notebooks, smart watches, routers and so on). It doesn't matter if they are more energy efficient either if you keep making more and more of them. Just the environmental impact of making them is unsustainable. Similarly it doesn't matter how much value new paradigms like Bitcoin or AI adds to the economy, it's just more environmental impact. Replacing hundreds of millions of cars with electric cars is just more impact too.

They are in this situation because Elon Musk keeps haphazardly pulling the ground under them. There is no larger purpose other than an incompetent, vindictive billionaire trying to save money after buying something he didn't want. Like driving these people to the wall will do anything for Twitter. The people needed for running the platform were either fired or quit. They deployed Twitter Blue without a proper privacy review, potentially in violation of FTC's consent order, which can even land people in jail.

But that's not what serverless means. The idea behind serverless is that you only deploy the code and the cloud provider takes care of everything else, using their servers. Function as a Service is an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing

It looks like you are right, it saves offline-enabled content to a number of encrypted blobs only the official app can play.

I wouldn't now, I use yt-dlp that can also make use of YouTube cookies, since otherwise YouTube is not DRM protected like Netflix is for example.

Telling engineers to break the law is astounding, but it's on par for Elon Musk. It's a good way to ensure that only the sycophants and hopeless optimists will remain at the company. That works for SpaceX, useful people are still willing to stick around despite Elon Musk, who knows if it will work for Twitter.

YouTube Premium is completely ad-free though, and it also let's you download videos and music for offline use without any DRM.

I wouldn't say it's the worst, it's pretty snappy, and have a low energy impact. Reddit's spinner loaders can take forever, and your browser occasionally chokes on all the JavaScript needed for the ghastly SPA experience. Unlike Reddit it works on mobile too.

Things are going good. The Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief Privacy Officer and the Chief Compliance Officer are all gone for good, along with half of the employees, basically everyone needed to keep things running. It is a remote-first company, but everyone is ordered to work from the office.

Update: Twitter's Head of Trust and Safety and Head of Ad Sales are also gone.

Meanwhile Elon Musk is running around haphazardly trying to monetize the entire platform, sacrificing verification for no reason and replacing it with a paid tier. Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers, which doesn't have to do anything with also having a paid tier. The difference is that Youtube Premium pays content creators, not charges them like Twitter Blue. Sure, content creators will pay to be featured, but there aren't that many of them.

Quantum physics is a low-level approach to understanding the Universe, not you life. This is like saying that you studied the microprocessor executing a chess program in order to understand how chess is played. We don't live in the quantum world, we live under the reign of the classical laws of physics, which happens to be powered by quantum physics and not an alien supercomputer. Not that it matters what powers it until you need to understand the underlying platform, like you do for photosynthesis or microelectronics, both of which exposes quantum physics.

This is what I love about the cryptoverse. This article stops just an inch before calling this sociopath the second coming of Jesus, while he was turning everyone's money into useless monopoly money, and now that the bagholders are properly left holding their bags everyone is swearing up and down that this will never happen again.

1. There is already popular service called Fastlane.

2. It's a Python script. A few functions and a simple CLI, not an entire "self-hosted" "serverless" password manager. It's a stateless password manager. There is no point hosting it anywhere.

3. Using an external service (ANU QRNG) as random generator is completely unnecessary. Use the client.

I have been rewatching this wonderfully convoluted anime a few times every year for the last 10 years, it just tickles something in me.

I don't think it's really about the internet, technology just fits into a larger social commentary on the interconnected and flimsy nature of our functions manifesting themselves in maladaptive ways, from sub-cultures to religion and corporate culture. The show mostly frames this within themes of identity and connection.

That being said the show is purposefully open to interpretation, almost like it's a play on just giving you enough to create your own potentially distorted meaning.

An ergonomic keyboard layout like Workman doesn't hurt either. QWERTY was made with typewriter jamming in mind, sacrificing ergonomics completely, especially for English.

They are only failures if you haven't learned anything from them, otherwise they are useful experiences.

This piece only came out now because everyone is dropping Trump like hot potato, betting on DeSantis who happens to be waging the same useless culture war Trump does. In fact you will barely find one Republican who have a platform other than forcing conservative social beliefs on a country that is already center-left without gerrymandering.

I also don't believe that Pence didn't see this coming after years of riling up their supporters with conspiracy theories, fueling an unprecedented amount of right-wing extremism.

For Twitter the backend infrastructure is what's interesting, half of which is dedicated to storing data.

On the contrary, after the horror stories coming from Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard, sometimes requiring the government to intervene, my expectation is really low. If anything this is a dull affair since nobody got killed or sexually harrassed.

I knew Marty's open letter was bullshit back then when I first read it since the game was originally set to release in 2019, and here he was talking about not having Mick under contract for the OST in January 2020. It was also suspicious that he said that they didn't have the source material for the game music after that contract has ended. That would be such a tremendous oversight, the studio not owning all the material for their game.

It all makes sense after reading Mick's statement. Chad was tasked with the OST for the original release date back in August 2019, and he was supposed to use the game music, including the parts that ended up being rejected for the game. This is why Mick was ignored for months when asking about the OST. They only went back to him in March 2020 when it was apparent that the studio is not up to the task.

I wouldn't charge the content creators for one, they are the lifeblood of the platform. I would do the opposite, I would let them charge their fans with membership tiers and such. I would also provide an API for content creators to be able to authorize their fans to access content outside of Twitter, basically turning the site into a membership portal. Like Patreon, but with better discoverability, as the paid content would be an add-on on top of Twitter as it is now.

I would keep the short text format, but I would also venture into short video.

I would start catering to the adult industry.

Another happy landing for cryptocurrency, making the world a better place one terrorist state at a time.

They also shared their client data with Russia.

I think most of us can get away with being sloppier than that.

I like the simple structure of the Linux git commits. They start with a scope, which is how the directories in the repository are organized. I would rather spend effort on coming up with proper scopes instead of categorizing commits into types. Individual commits are often part of a bigger story, so such categorization is not even that useful.

She is that weird Twitter lady sleeping on the floor at work. Worth it though, the world is now a better place with this new checkmark, and people can keep pointing to her as an example on LinkedIn. Inspiring! Grind yourself to dust for this billionaire #perseverance #team #grateful #SleepWhereYouWork #StockholmSyndrome.

The world is returning to poverty because we are running out of key resources, and the environment is becoming hostile to us, mostly as a result of greenhouse gases.

You should stop listening to loudmouths on social media, they are using the word Marxist wrong, and nobody has an agenda to destroy the world. It's not the left's science, it's science. Our economy is unsustainable, there are no two ways about it. We always put a big emphasis on measures like the GDP because they are comfortable, convenient, easy to work with.

It's costly and risky to have cheap tiers though. Transactions have a fixed cost, and small transactions tend to be more fraudulent. Fraudulent transactions are not only costly, but if your chargeback rate reaches 1% most financial institutions drop you like a hot potato.

We can pretend that we are doing amazing, shattering one growth target after another, but this is not the reality. Reality is not liberal bullshit, it's consequences are real. Admitting we have a problem is the first step, which is why we need a better measure, one that includes how the rest of us are doing, not just the wealthy. It also doesn't hurt to include how sustainable all of this, because if it's not than what's the point of growth.

Iran doesn't have free elections, and it's ruled by a Supreme Leader, who is the highest political and religious authority.

It's a patriarchal society. Iran is ranked 140 out of 144 for gender parity and things only got worst for women there in recent years.

Currently 16 of the 290 are women or 5.9%, and sex absolutely has everything to do with it. It's a patriarchal society and women lack many basic rights and are treated horribly. The protest is a reaction to a 22-year old woman killed for wearing an improper hijab, in violation of Iran's mandatory hijab law.

He did got this far by listening to the right people. And by being born rich, meeting the right people at the right time, being subsidized by the government, and delivering unique products with a great story and the help of the right people.

Unfortunately as you can see he ended up buying his own brand, his cult of personality, and the sycophants that come with it. It's a tragic tale as old as humanity. He is off playing politics and polishing his ego while Volkswagen and the rest of the auto industry is eating his lunch.

The world won't exactly rush over to stop Iran from killing it's own future, so good for these 227 old men for putting themselves first once again. If you think about this is how the entire world works, and somehow these old men can always bear the shame.