TikTok is a front for government surveillance, so it's not really surprising that this is their position.
All social media should be considered a front for government surveillance
Readit Newsemulatedmedia commented on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes marginalia.nu/weird-ai-cr... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
If we are ok with flooding the world with AI generated software. I find it funny to reject the increase of comments or even articles written by AI. Can't have the cake and eat it too or something like that
emulatedmedia commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
Its crazy how the AusGov has just tried to turn this into some kind of nationalistic celebration. Passing laws isolating children isnt to be celebrated by lighting up national monuments.
Isolating children from what? If anything, this will make they spend more time with their friends and family
emulatedmedia commented on Show HN: I built the literal Duolingo Killer kanjieight.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/Mikecraft
> Learn new languages 2.7x faster with Kanji #8's proven learning method.
Proven by whom? How did they get that number?
Is it this some kind of satire website?
emulatedmedia commented on Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it's sinking economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Yes. It allows criminals to move significant amounts of money without much effort, intervention or tracking. The current ransomware issue is a direct consequence of the attackers being able to utilize a relatively safe and cheap payment channel. Without it, the endeavor makes no economic sense.
It also helps people around the world to send and receive money that doesn't have the privilege to do so in a conventional way.
It is easy claiming it is useless because you don't need it, when you have no limitations or in the best case you don't need to swallow fees that start from 30%
emulatedmedia commented on This map is not upside down maps.com/this-map-is-not-... · Posted by u/aagha
As someone from the Southern Hemisphere, the article's point falls flat. There's more land area in the top so it makes it easier to look at it
emulatedmedia commented on React is winning by default and slowing innovation lorenstew.art/blog/react-... · Posted by u/dbushell
You are giving most front end devs way too much credit. Most just use React because that's what they were taught and see it as an end rather than as a means to an end as if it is an accomplishment.
Computers have become faster while websites have become slower. You can go on a random webpage and usually see 100s of MBs of memory being used while we had computers in the 90s running 3D games with around 1/100 of that. LLMs have partly become popular because people don't want to enter the current wasteland of web pages who couldn't care less what framework you used and just want to get what they are looking for and to get out.
You will see people write things like "powered by React" as if React is doing any thing except running more JS. You are not getting any closer to the CPU or any of your hardware that actually runs your machine.
At best some of these front-end devs want to appear as if their job is far more complicated and sophisticated than it is.
Every software has become slower, not just websites
how would a company respond if you had a bot do your job interview in your place? or do your rent applications?
they wouldn’t accept it.
growing up, my first job as a teenager at a restaurant that had ridiculous uniforms, i lasted about two months. i realized it irritated me that the owner would hang out at the restaurant in street clothes but expected us to look like little dancing monkeys. i quit and never worked another job where the owner asked us to do things they would never lower themselves to do.
i understand on the surface jt sounds petty, but it has proven to be a fairly strong indicator of how employees are treated.
if the people in power look at those who make them money as less than, if those in power expect others to jump through hoops they wouldn’t do themselves, it’s time to seriously reevaluate the situation.
HR can use AI to do interviews and developers can use AI to write 90% of the code. Sounds fair