ah, I just noticed this dude is a director at the company that makes tasers and police drones
― rob, Sunday, 15 August 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
moving at the speed of a 100-person startup
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 August 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
lol seriously
I just can't get over how this was all in service of developing a product that was indistinguishable from an already massively popular one. I want to read the breathless thread about how people wrecked their lives to put out the Zune
― rob, Sunday, 15 August 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
"yeah I worked 90 hours a week, destroyed my marriage, and didn't watch my kids grow up but hey we shipped an important product""ah well at least you're rich now""oh no, no no no, but i have the satisfaction of having made other people rich"completely deranged— Kat Cosgrove (@Dixie3Flatline) August 15, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 15 August 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
in retrospect, the zune was the first time i really became aware of tech overbloat. it's still funny to think about. and the word 'zune' has to be a nadir of the english language. it still makes me cringe-laugh at how bad it is.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 16 August 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/z0kxIIl4fc0WfO3u7uB9B_TkCeP919kzD8xY5rqR0fiGzvHGGQfMaSsC7CCmQ3GRneB0Gb3Al07Z=s200
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 16 August 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
I just can't get over how this was all in service of developing a product that was indistinguishable from an already massively popular one.
That sort of product defined the Steve Ballmer era at Microsoft. Microsoft thought they learnt from Internet Explorer that they could crush any hot new tech product or service from another company simply by throwing money at it and melding it into Windows, but what worked for IE didn't work for Zune, Bing, Windows Phone, and several others - all reactions to competitors who got there first and did it better. Even IE itself would later crash and burn. Microsoft has since replaced it with Edge, a web browser most of us use exactly once, to download Chrome...
― Lee626, Monday, 16 August 2021 04:41 (two years ago) link
Now Edge is just Chrome
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 16 August 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
don’t forget that msft bought the world’s most popular video calling software and rendered it an unusable add-on to Teams right before the pandemic hit. has to be in their top 5 galaxy brane moves
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 August 2021 07:00 (two years ago) link
oh yeah Bing! lmao
― rob, Monday, 16 August 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
Tracer, which one? I’m thinking of Skype here, but they bought that in 2011 and have been fucking it up in various ways for a decade
― mh, Monday, 16 August 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
I don't use Chrome anymore, now Firefox is my best friend
― aegis philbin (crüt), Monday, 16 August 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
Chrome is spyware tbrr, and on the user end I feel like the diffs between browsers are super minimal now. heck I barely see a diff between DuckDuckGo and Google Search now
― rob, Monday, 16 August 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
i agree that chrome is spyware and no one should use it, and ff is equivalent for almost all users, but the new safari is pretty drastically different from either for better or worse (well, it's definitely worse, but it's good to see someone trying something new i guess).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 August 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
mh - yeah skype - i guess i mean they finally basically buried it completely within the guts of Teams right before the pandemic. on my work computer at least, it had been hanging on as 'Skype for Business' for several years. incredible to me how thoroughly they nuked the brand equity. 'Skype' was a verb that most people knew! it meant video calling!
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
but the new safari is pretty drastically different from either for better or worse (well, it's definitely worse, but it's good to see someone trying something new i guess)
ha! I'm not sure I've tried this version, now I'm intrigued
― rob, Monday, 16 August 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
I only use Safari. If I had a BSD or Linux desktop I'd probably use either Firefox or this bullshit http://surf.suckless.org
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 16 August 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
what's different about the new safari?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 August 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/06/wwdc-2021-safari-15-to-bring-huge-ui-changes/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 August 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
they've dialed it back a bit since WWDC but it's still pretty weird
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 August 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/06/17/safari-15/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 August 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
Gonna stick with Firefox. That looks like make-work for a team that should move on to something else.
― DJI, Monday, 16 August 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
Bookmarks and tabs have both always been huge problems - people just don't use them well, or efficiently, or at all - so I can't hate them putting some effort into that
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 August 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
safari changes seem just… whatever, to me, so far.
Tracer, I don’t think “Skype for Business” had anything to do with actual Skype, which afaik was a separate, incompatible program. They literally just rebranded their messaging program that came with Office a third time. (Office Communicator, Lynn, then Skype iirc)
― mh, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link
haha oh
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link
whoops, typo there, the second one was “Lync”calling their shitty messaging app that never worked right “Skype” was one of the stupidest branding ploys they’ve done imo
― mh, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/28/tech/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-trial-mental-health/index.html
― Taliban! (PBKR), Saturday, 28 August 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
there’s no reason to doubt that Balwani is what she alleges he is but how much of a defense is it? Lee Boyd Malvo is doing life for murders he did while a teenager under the sway of an older man but he’s a Black man and Holmes is a white woman.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Saturday, 28 August 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
I don't think it is much of a defense.
The story just gives me the willies.
― Taliban! (PBKR), Saturday, 28 August 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-01/how-diapers-com-founder-marc-lore-plans-to-build-utopian-city-telosa
As billionaire vanity projects go, this beats the hell out of Thiel’s Ephebophilia Island.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 5 September 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
no way lmao pic.twitter.com/Rm9Zu1ECYE— stephanie (@isosteph) September 5, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
Hero
― DJI, Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
you can hear the swelling soundtrack playing in his head it's beautiful
― Left, Sunday, 5 September 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
Book excerpt with some interesting anecdotes of a young Peter Thiel:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html
― o. nate, Monday, 20 September 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
that's a yikes
Text messages between Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani today at the #Theranos trial.Holmes:"You are the breeze in desert for me.""My water.""And ocean.""Meant to be only together tiger."Balwani: "OK"— scott budman (@scottbudman) September 22, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
he's a real casanova
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
Thumbs up emoji
― kinder, Thursday, 23 September 2021 08:32 (two years ago) link
"you are my eternal 'OK', washing over me with alrightness"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
I dunno, your partner starts texting you lyrics from "The Wind Beneath My Wings", I'm not sure "OK" isn't the proper response.
― Taliban! (PBKR), Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/032/520/yeahgood.jpg
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Thursday, 23 September 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
it's contagious
Sunak says he was inspired by his time working in California.The years I spent in California left a lasting mark on me ….…. working with some of the most innovative and exciting people in finance and technology.Watching ideas becoming a reality.Seeing entrepreneurs build new teams.It’s not just about money.I saw a culture ……. a mindset ……. which was unafraid to challenge itself...…. reward hard work ...…. and was open to all those with the talent to achieve.I look across the United Kingdom …... and that culture is here too ….
The years I spent in California left a lasting mark on me ….
…. working with some of the most innovative and exciting people in finance and technology.
Watching ideas becoming a reality.
Seeing entrepreneurs build new teams.
It’s not just about money.
I saw a culture …
…. a mindset …
…. which was unafraid to challenge itself...
…. reward hard work ...
…. and was open to all those with the talent to achieve.
I look across the United Kingdom …
... and that culture is here too ….
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Monday, 4 October 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
it's contagious_Sunak says he was inspired by his time working in California.The years I spent in California left a lasting mark on me ….…. working with some of the most innovative and exciting people in finance and technology.Watching ideas becoming a reality.Seeing entrepreneurs build new teams.It’s not just about money.I saw a culture ……. a mindset ……. which was unafraid to challenge itself...…. reward hard work ...…. and was open to all those with the talent to achieve.I look across the United Kingdom …... and that culture is here too …._
― And of course the worms! (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 4 October 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
Was thinking recently about how in the "fintech" and "defi" spaces you always hear these entrepreneur types talking about the "unbanked" and how they are going to give these people "access" to financial services. As though the cause of poverty is not having access to a bank, rather than, you know, not having access to MONEY.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
Because the banks are killing us with all their fees! I say as I pay a $90 gas fee to buy a $50 jpg of a llama.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
man alive i’m pretty sure giving them money i.e. loans is part of their plan!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
people not having access to good, non-usurious banking IS a real problem. solutions like california's recently-signed-into-law public banking act are, of course, opposed by bankers and the silicon valley set, who are more interested in solutions which double as businesses.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
As though the cause of poverty is not having access to a bank, rather than, you know, not having access to MONEY.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, October 5, 2021 8:24 AM (two hours ago)
Of course there are profiteers that see the problem as a way to extract their cut, but there are definitely aspects of not having access to a bank / financial institution that can extend credit or loan money that perpetuates poverty. Even when people have money. There's also a lot of structural racism in the U.S. that has created these conditions such that isn't just a rich vs poor issue.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
But this is just the "microcredit" myth all over again. That failed. People need more money. If they have more money, they will get access to banks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
I don't think Tracer Hand was implying that giving those loans would be in any way designed to help the recipients, just the lenders.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
right, I guess I was conflating Tracer's likely ironical post with sarahell's more earnest one.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link