Railander · HackerTrans

3 năm trướcdiscuss

TBF having a quick response time to real-world fraud (as in, not because there is a bug in the code, but because users are lying to each other) is not an issue a developer would normally have to worry about. Seems like he simply got scapegoated on that one.

Railander

3 năm trướcdiscuss

I think it is very bold of him to claim starting from zero would be slower. He has accrued so much hate that if he were to start one I can't see how it would turn out any different than truthsocial or if Biden started his own social media platform.

Although I do think it's doable if he somehow kept the fact that he is at the helm a trade secret as he gradually grew the userbase until reaching a certain critical mass and finally revealing that he's the owner.

Railander

3 năm trướcdiscuss

That will only happen when people can't do the things they normally could anymore on the browser. I was/am expecting it to happen with manifest v3, as I understood it it would break userscripts and make adblocking a pain, so far it hasn't happened so I still haven't bothered switching off Chrome.

Assuming this gets implemented, users might start being unable to access certain websites or services because their identity is deemed "insufficient", which would move them to use a different browser that does not have this.

Railander

3 năm trướcdiscuss

> Lots of networking equipment works over HTTP only, still.

MikroTik has supported https for a very very long time, though it comes disabled by default and even if it didn't it wouldn't work because it requires the user creating/importing a cert to use with it.

At least the cert manager is quite intricate and they have a video (assuming the device has a valid WAN IP) on how to set it up with letsencrypt.

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

Considering they did lay off 50% of their staff, your analysis was spot-on.

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

He's definitely feeling the pain right now, you can tell by how much more docile he's gotten in the last 48 hours.

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

From his recent tweets he has said exactly the opposite; that he will build a "council" of diversified opinions and cultures, or something of the sort.

Whatever that means or if it's ever actually happening though remains to be seen.

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

> This is the old "voters are actually stupid" idea. I don't buy it.

"Stupid" is probably the wrong word here. "Gullible" is probably more apt, considering they keep falling for these.

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

>it almost might incentivize politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements

They for sure would since there's a word for that: demagoguery.

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

> repeatedly annoying non-user visitors doesn't make them want to sign up?

It absolutely does, and that is precisely why they keep doing it. It doesn't work for the kinds of people that browse hackernews, but that's not their core audience anyway.

It's like saying ads don't work because you and me never click them because we use an adblock. Clearly they do work, and quite well...

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

This is a technique called "getting the foot in the door".

You see videogames employing these psychological tactics constantly nowadays to completely min-max human behavior into spending money.

Railander

4 năm trướcdiscuss

To be fair, doesn't seem like he's putting any effort into digging holes.

The strongest argument is Tesla still doesn't have self-driving cars considering he's given it tons of attention for years and missed ETAs many times, but they're clearly getting there.

That said, while I do think space travel is crazy cool, the prospects of living on Mars are quite long-term and a _lot_ of work to the point you might ask if it's really worth it worrying about it right now. How are they going to solve the atmosphere? Or even more impossible, how are they going to solve the ionizing radiation from space? I guess they could just live in closed-off domes but still...

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