Where is the official source repository for the OS? Can just find the outdated and non-functional Google repository.
Readit Newsinfotainment commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
infotainment commented on Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video] youtube.com/watch?v=pcPzm... · Posted by u/net01
I'm surprised more hasn't been made of the difference in screen resolution between this device and other Pebbles (and even the "new" Pebble 2 Duo). Old watchfaces and apps are not going to render without black borders, and given the niche market and limited run of this new model, it doesn't seem likely to attract much in the way of developer attention, so a healthy marketplace of new faces/apps may not surface.
If I could design _my_ dream watch (to borrow Eric's phrase), I'd put a larger version of the black and white MIP display in Time 2's case -- not more pixels, just bigger and easier to read.
You'd be surprised how many of the old devs are coming out of the woodwork to fix their old watchfaces and apps. It seems like a lot of people who were excited enough about Pebble in the past to develop apps seem to still be excited about it.
Plus, it's not particularly difficult to support the bigger screen size in the SDK.
infotainment commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Asking why they don't build affordable housing is like asking why don't they build used cars
Exactly -- all new housing is going to be marketed as "luxury".
Who is going to build a brand-new apartment and say "well, this is janky low-quality housing, you might want to live here if you're poor or something"?
infotainment commented on 'Elon has woken up': Musk battles to save Tesla from Trump ft.com/content/aaf1a903-1... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Elon backing Trump in the 2024 election was one of the dumbest and most obvious own goals in history.
Letting “DOGE” be the ones to cut spending was kinda a great play on Trump’s part — it effectively got Elon to take the heat for cuts Trump himself wanted.
People are still talking about how “Elon” cut USAID, even though that was very clearly a Trump priority from the beginning.
Deleted Comment
My take would be something like this:
Any public or public-ish website, or website with more than x user which presents algorithmically sorted or curated content must make readily available the source feed for their algorithms as well as any other information they use.
On any page where algorithmically sorted or curated content is presented, they must fully describe the algorithm used. Ditto anywhere you select an algorithm or navigate to an algorithmically curated or sorted page - it must be described fully in the button or selector, or adjacent to it. If that is impractical for space reasons, it should be described as best as possible with footnotes expanding on the explanation.
Furthermore, the explanation, source feed, and additional information should be complete and clear such that someone could reasonably recreate a page or sorting given the algorithm, source feed, and additional info. This would be the test used in court if someone alleged infringement.
My hope is that such a law would heavily bias sites towards simple, less manipulative algorithms.
TBH, I think that wouldn't solve the core problem.
If you forced, for example, TikTok to do this right now, they would presumably add a page to their app with their recommender algorithm. Then what? Meta or other competitors might be interested in copying aspects of it, but normal users would likely ignore it and continue being addicted to TikTok.
A big issue here would be defining social media.
Are forums social media? What about reddit? What about YouTube?
I think what we really need is a ban on algorithmic recommendations that seek to encourage engagement or total time spent on the app.
I think this is a reasonable take; a good start would be banning all forms of algorithmic "discovery" recommendations, and things like "for you" feeds.
All this does if make things worse. Things like banning the sale of personal information would be a step in the right direction.
I suspect social media's biggest problems (engagement bait, brainrot, echo chambers, etc), would generally not be fixed even with a ban on sale of personal data.
I'd rather just a full blanket ban on social media, but I guess it's something.
Social media is basically what cigarettes were in the 50s: everyone uses it, and seemingly no one is aware of how it is almost entirely bad.
If such mention would mean increased reviewer attention, then every code review should include it.