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  • Twitter Blue is dead, 'official' checkmarks resurrected

    CalamanderCalamander
    9secondkox2 said:
    Old twitter: didn't do much and still couldn't implement any changes over the course of forever.

    New Twitter: Pivots multiple times in a week from day 1 to verify what works and what doesn't.

    I'll take New Twitter every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

    Strange article though. Making official statements on things that have not been communicated is odd. Twitter was a mess and needs a LOT of overhaul. These feature tests aren't going away anytime soon. Twitter is coming up with great ideas and then reading the room.

    Instead of acting like an old, crusty telecom or Microsoft, it has trimmed the fat and acting like a startup - a lean, mean freedom of speech machine. Just because it made a decision doesn't mean it has to stick with it if it was the wrong one, no matter how right it seemed in the boardroom. They are reading the room and responding quickly - something universally recognized as a good thing. Some people are just mad because they wanted to bash the decision forever. and then get upset that their little target for hate has been removed. It's hilarious.

    Twitter is finally in the hands of someone who is not only a very capable and hugely successful businessman, but someone with vision, enthusiasm, and a drive to be a unifying factor for freedom over the draconian political hitmen of yesterday. 

    Looking forward to what is next.
    Yes - maybe too much experimentation and not enough thoughts about game mechanics, but keep in mind Musk blew up 9 rockets before the first one made it. 

    Compared to that, taking risks with checkmarks is nothing! 

    Someone analyzed it well - you can't charge the content creators, you need to pay them! 

    You can't charge the normal folks, they will go elsewhere where it's free, maybe Tik Tok. 

    The only people willing to pay $8 - it's a no-brainer for scammers who stand to make way more than the 8 bucks they invested with their fake Twitter personality, selling whatever snake oil to the unsuspecting public. 

    In hindsight these game mechanics are obvious, but I can say I definitely didn't predict that beforehand. I bought into the "well rich and famous people won't mind paying $8" idea. Not realizing that Twitter has more to lose than these personalities, should they leave Twitter, and also that they're busy people who might not have the time or attention span to fiddle with their credit card to get a checkmark on Twitter - they probably have about 1,000 more pressing issues to deal with. Except for Elon, since he's a Twitter troll who has the most followers of anyone... 
    watto_cobra

  • Meta's 11,000 job cuts may be only the beginning

    CalamanderCalamander
    Couldn't have anything to do with rampand censorship and "factcheckers" - who, by Facebook's own admission in court, are merely sources of "opinions". 

    I am very, very happy that telling people what to think is not profitable. 

    Leads to losses. 

    Same with Netflix. Regardless of what anyone's opinions are on any topics, content providers should not push an agenda. 

    Facebook like all social media is actually protected under a rule where it is not responsible for user content - meaning users can talk freely, but it doesn't affect Facebook. 

    Since Facebook started censoring people and posts on certain topics, one could argue Facebook should then be governed like a publisher. As it is now curating content and thereby pushing an agenda, it should then also be held to account for misinformation it was actively promoting, while suppressing facts under the cover of misinformation. 
    watto_cobra

  • PayPal gets Passkey support on iPhone, iPad, Mac in U.S.

    CalamanderCalamander
    I just closed 2 PayPal accounts. 

    Bye bye. 
    byronl

  • Elon Musk moving forward on Twitter deal, and might mean it this time

    CalamanderCalamander
    Tech stocks crashed after the made his announcement which would have made it a terrible deal with the promised fixed price. 

    Seems they recovered now since they're picking it up again. 

    In the meantime Twitter lied about how many bots they had. Unsurprisingly. It's not in their interest to find out, and it is in their interest to have the smallest of plausible deniability fig leaf internal analytics to come up with the smallest possible number...

    People who do not understand the constitution should not talk about free speech at all. Ever.
    People who don't know why the 2nd amendment exists should not comment on this at all, ever. 

    Those who do know why it exists know that it's the only thing that stands between a totalitarian fascist dictatorship and them.

    Who controls the information controls the minds of the people. Simple concept. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple pushes back on India's demand to support GPS rival in 2023 iPhones

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    StrangeDays said:
    lkrupp said:
    Why? Because if the government owns the GPS they can track your whereabouts much more easily.
    Not if you keep that tinfoil on nice & tight. 
    Both these comments are strange.

    Governments always know where you are through the cell towers. That's how cell phones work, and if you want to use a cell phone, the network must be able to track you, so they know where you are and can route data / calls to you. It's built into the technology. 

    Since government has full access to that data they always know where you are as long as your phone is on. 

    Comment 1 is strange because the government doesn't need GPS to track you. They're already tracking you. 

    Comment 2 is strange because the fact that they track you is not a theory, it's how cell phone work. 

    Which government branch can access the tracking data at any given time is another matter - but they are tracking ya.
    watto_cobra