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neolobe t1_j6iga5o wrote
Reply to comment by RollingTater in TikTok’s master plan to win over Washington — Millions spent on lobbyists, a billion spent on safeguards. Will it be enough to stay in the United States? (26 Jan. 2023) by marketrent
The big US tech companies have lobbyists working on politicians and using the privacy as a smoke screen.
The true issue is not privacy. The true issue is TikTok is eating these other companies for lunch. It's newer, it's fresher, it has more active users. Youtube, Facebook, and Insta have blatant short-format ripoffs of Tiktok on their sites trying to stay relevant. And their versions with such low-level content are an embarrassment. People actually make content for TikTok. FB and YT just rip it off. TikTok is a major player in the entertainment industries now.
That is the true issue.
rabbit994 t1_j6ifsym wrote
Reply to comment by despitegirls in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet
In general with all these companies is how they just let anyone sign up without doing serious amount of checking. FCC should enforce serious Know Your Customer regulations and hand out big fines for failing to do these checks.
kanaleins t1_j6iflmy wrote
Reply to comment by machsoftwaredesign in Like users, app developers are fleeing Twitter for Mastodon. Can independent developers do for Mastodon what they did for Twitter? by 9dnguy
Just joined, I’ve never went through a more complex setup process in my life. I had to go to an e-mail provider, then find a username, signup on that 3rd party website, then find yet another 3rd party app for my platform, then find that 3rd party server in the app, and now I can’t find anybody to write e-mails to. One server has 10,000 people, another 50,000, another 2000, another 500,000, etc. All these different servers and apps to choose from makes no sense. If it’s this confusing for a developer, how to do they expect users to join without going through the headache I just went through?
_gen_sec_sucks t1_j6ifgld wrote
Reply to comment by Philip_Marlowe in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet
Just an honestly happy customer :)
bigj4155 t1_j6ifevn wrote
Reply to Electrify America faces more issues as Rivian R1T gets "fried" at station in California by chrisdh79
It continues to surprise me that people just dont get that fast charging IS A LUDACRIS AMOUNT OF POWER BEING TRANSFERRED. Sure these charges shouldnt destroy your vehicle but the simple fact is that if something goes wrong it goes really really wrong.
Horat1us_UA t1_j6iez3z wrote
Reply to comment by PEVEI in Electrify America faces more issues as Rivian R1T gets "fried" at station in California by chrisdh79
Because the name has Tesla in it, and it is associated with Elon Musk, who will not lie
bigtimephonk t1_j6ierfp wrote
Reply to comment by slinky317 in Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit by tyteen4a03
This helped me figure out that Imgur refused to close. Great feature.
WhatTheZuck420 t1_j6ienz1 wrote
Paywalled. But the title sounds about right.
ojedaforpresident t1_j6iedny wrote
Reply to comment by 613Rok in Ford cuts prices on electric Mustang Mach-E, following Tesla's lead by Familiar-Turtle
Ford lets you order through their website, at MSRP. Don’t really think dealers can do much about it.
No clue on the lead time, though.
Willinton06 t1_j6ie9za wrote
Great, thankfully the congress is equipped with a set of subject matter experts to ask the right questions and get to the bottom of the issue
hateitorleaveit t1_j6idw9t wrote
Reply to comment by Makenchi45 in Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit by tyteen4a03
are you asking me?
icenoid t1_j6idq6k wrote
Reply to comment by despitegirls in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet
At my last job, the CEOs phone number got spoofed. When he texted some of us to tell us we were being laid off, we thought it was another prank. Yeah, it wasn’t.
StickiStickman t1_j6idpr2 wrote
Reply to comment by ShrimpCrackers in ChatGPT Has Been Around for 2 Months and Is Causing Untold Chaos by Parking_Attitude_519
If you want to keep living in your own world, go ahead. Literally no one except you thinks that, especially anyone in the professional ML space like me.
Daetra t1_j6idm9z wrote
Reply to comment by Motopsycho-007 in Ford cuts prices on electric Mustang Mach-E, following Tesla's lead by Familiar-Turtle
Just looked into those models. Very cool. I wouldn't mind traveling cross country in those campers.
thruster_fuel69 t1_j6idhfo wrote
Reply to comment by bigkoi in Dreams for the tech sector’s rout: The end of founder worship, and a reset of toxic startup values by Hrmbee
I've worked at the same top 500 company for many years, 3 different ceos. The first was worshipped and the next two spent their time fixing the culture. Leader worship ruins culture so fast.
br0keb0x t1_j6id9dg wrote
Reply to comment by thetruetoblerone in Google mobility data shows San Francisco metro area led the nation in avoiding the office in 2022 by marketrent
More like keep downtown SF a shithole so returning to work is a risk
reversiblehash t1_j6id5kx wrote
Reply to comment by Philip_Marlowe in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet
I was hoping to get more of y'all. It's a shame my msg auto collapsed under the heavily downed patent comment.
reversiblehash t1_j6icwh2 wrote
Reply to comment by JuiceColdman in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet
I knew I needed a common robo message and to embed it in an otherwise innocuous reply. Landed with a we've been trying to reach you....
Motopsycho-007 t1_j6icr1h wrote
Reply to comment by Daetra in Ford cuts prices on electric Mustang Mach-E, following Tesla's lead by Familiar-Turtle
Really hope we see the ID California available in Canada
Dracos57 t1_j6icqf9 wrote
Reply to comment by greenfuelunits in TikTok General Counsel No Longer Oversees US Relations by greenfuelunits
u/greenfuelunits you mean cloud war...
PEVEI t1_j6icmvp wrote
Reply to Electrify America faces more issues as Rivian R1T gets "fried" at station in California by chrisdh79
Now why would a site called "Drive Tesla Canada" be a good source for anything?
skellener t1_j6icjbe wrote
Reply to Electrify America faces more issues as Rivian R1T gets "fried" at station in California by chrisdh79
Electrocute America
[deleted] t1_j6ic0fo wrote
Reply to comment by -bickd- in Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit by Tooskee
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GetOutOfTheWhey t1_j6ibp05 wrote
Reply to comment by GBreezy in China’s Top Nuclear-Weapons Lab Used American Computer Chips Decades After Ban by hzj5790
It may be a clickbait story but somewhere there's an angry republican congressmen
AzulMage2020 t1_j6igbtz wrote
Reply to Dreams for the tech sector’s rout: The end of founder worship, and a reset of toxic startup values by Hrmbee
Its amazing . The current crop of advantaged. spoiled, propped up by marketing , "entrepreneurial leaders" have ruined it for at least one generation of their peers by being so inept and obtuse that they completely destroyed the paper thin veil of intellectual superiority they cloak themselves with to maintain the façade of a fair playing field. It will be interesting to see what new concepts are used to conceal blatant oligarchy and nepotism for the short term.