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I'm fine with not answering questions about basic things, thanks.

Fine. Shining lights in your eyes improves vision.

Ah you downvoted bc of that?

Maybe read a little?

IMO the bigger issue is the fact our eyes are biological and degrade over time.

Most tech reviews and culture only give limit oxygen to accessibility.

But the reality is, if you spend a lifetime on a computer screen your eyes will degrade a bit quicker than most.

(granted: new tech is a boom for Accessibility in many ways)

Sticking a screen a few inches from your eyes will always have limitations. The older you get the more reluctant you will feel.

I am still not understanding who the target audience is for these type of devices - does it really have a mass-scale audience, or just a highly specialised one? is it used for 10 minutes at a time, or hours?

No doubt Meta has issues here, like all social platforms.

But Meta at least has some level of verification and active moderation. You can't generally get away with posting explicit porn for any amount of time.

Try signing up to Meta with a disposable email address or without a phone number. Sure these things can be side stepped, but for the average person it's a hurdle, and ultimately many petty criminals will be identifying themselves if it came to that.

On the other hand Xitter is so DESPERATE for you to sign up they don't care about dodgy emails or even insist on phone numbers any more.

And, let me tell you, Xitter makes ZERO effort to even LOOK at porn, so hard core porn is THRIVING on there, including stuff that leans heavily on youth taboos. I don't click or search for illegal stuff, but I've certainly scrolled past some dodgy posts.

It's ridiculous how Xitter is getting away with this while Musk is fully and openly demonising Zuck. Sure Zuck has a history of being an arse, but this new wave of tech bro reality bubble is just... a whole new level of insane.

So the long term is more affordable housing, but Xi's perceived success was lifting millions out of poverty, with a majority tied to realestate.

Time to invade Taiwan, I guess.

OK now do investor Elon

At this point it would really help if they stopped filtering everything through Elon. The Musk prism scatters light in crazy ways and he doesn't speak to a general audience.

You can compare Taiwan to Iraq and Syria all you want - it's comedy.

lol, sorry but Taiwan and Ukraine are both countries that don't deserve to be attacked.

Self-sufficiency for China is important because when it attacks it will isolate itself in ways worse than Russia. The massive gamble Xi is about to take won't give his youth jobs, but might put them in a very bloody war.

Can't wait to "peer-to-peer" with the thousands of bonkers political idiots and hardcore porn stars who have sprung up with blue ticks and Twitter gladly/desperately took money from.

"Twitter serves as the de facto public town square" says Musk

More like the square for village idiots.

From what I can tell he hasn't done anything to make it a public square at all. Quite the opposite. It's easier than ever to be a fake propagandist or hardcore porn content creator, and they will even take your money for a silly badge, no questions asked.

Elon doesn't especially care, as it's simply another grifting scheme to bail out lower levels of his pyramid.

I don't know, ketamine can also make you bloated, evidently.

Neither is the time of year. The few remaining staff will be recovering from Xmas parties just before the long Christmas weekend if not already on holidays.

It's not down, it's having a software update.

Nice. But can I ask what motivated you? I don't see any affiliate details in the links - do you monetise at all?

Bought a watch to monitor fitness, then settles on a Casio that doesn't?

Retro Casios look great, to be fair. But, IMO, knowing the time isn't something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.

I'd definitely put them on a pedestal above X. No comparison.

No company is perfect, but what-about-isms trying to equate everything when someones preferred company is clearly deficient is just so lame.

X has a massive porn problem and no staff to even register it as an issue.

So weird that he is diving into these attacks.

Either he is ignorant, or he knows and is trying to keep above water by pushing others down.

So freedom of choice under a capitalist system that has supported him immensely is now something to be judged by "earth".

Well not sure I trust this website too much. Sure it tries for journalism "outside of the left/right echo chamber", but it's not too convincing looking at some of their headlines.

To claim it's a single culture of 1.5 billion is really interesting. China is many countries and cultures in one, but ruled by a certain class. Any outward disrespect China may feel could be seen as a handy distraction from problems of keeping 1.5 billion people the "same".

Under Reason 2: "For Tailwind you will often end up writing something like following" -

I think they meant "For bootstrap.."?

Well the article is a mixed bag, but it certainly highlights human error is still the thing causing issues - humans pushing to profit from ai, humans racing to show off ai, humans legislating ai without understanding it, etc.

I don't feel like ai is going to save us from ourselves, somehow.

No comments 17 hours later? Needs more AI, perhaps.

Do the Global South want to buy into surveillance technology this badly?

It's way more complex.

Nah, I'll be saying eXcrete over tweet from now on. It's on brand.

100%

Says it all really, top HN entry on this with only 11 comments after 6 hours.