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mavu commented on Mohamed Al-Fayed began life as a porter in Alexandria and died as a billionaire   arabnews.com/node/2366256... · Posted by u/webmobdev
mavu · 2 years ago
I kind of doubt that he actually began life as a porter.

Most of us begin as babies.

mavu commented on Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old   torrentfreak.com/tv-museu... · Posted by u/CoBE10
mavu · 2 years ago
It's almost as if a for-profit company is not a reliable place for things that are not done for profit. Weird.
mavu commented on Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night   electrek.co/2023/09/01/te... · Posted by u/nwienert
sidgarimella · 2 years ago
I ride Cruise daily– I think it's entirely a scoping problem and what they decide to finalize as "FSD".

From my exp autonomous driving seems entirely plausible within large cities at slower speeds that don't instantly kill you or others, and outside that just as good a lane assist + cruise control as you can get– the rest is branding FSD and walking back a claim or two around it. It all seems very malleable.

mavu · 2 years ago
> at slower speeds that don't instantly kill you or others,

So, what speed would that be that is safe for pedestrians?

And how useful is FSD that only drives at that speed?

See where this is going?

mavu commented on Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night   electrek.co/2023/09/01/te... · Posted by u/nwienert
mavu · 2 years ago
How people allow this testing by customers to happen on their roads is beyond me.
mavu commented on Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness   mjg59.dreamwidth.org/6740... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
mavu · 2 years ago
I love the first comment on the blog so much that i will replicate it here fully:

"Haha"

mavu commented on The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect   theverge.com/23845672/eu-... · Posted by u/redbell
5436757567 · 2 years ago
So you oppose freedom of speech, you oppose property rights, you oppose the right to protect children. Because you oppose basic rules in society, I support violence to fight you
mavu · 2 years ago
Ahahahaha :D Thanks, made me laugh :)
mavu commented on The Decreationist: Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self   theamericanscholar.org/th... · Posted by u/Caiero
mavu · 2 years ago
Any text that uses GOD anywhere near an argument, is already boring and irrelevant.
mavu commented on The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect   theverge.com/23845672/eu-... · Posted by u/redbell
nvm0n2 · 2 years ago
Worth remembering that this allows unlimited censorship of social media. What kind of things do they plan to censor? "Disinformation", broadly defined. The European Commission can now censor anything it wants, globally, and has already compiled lists of things it thinks are disinformation:

Consider, for instance, some of the key “disinformation trends” listed in the EDMO’s recent 2023 briefing on disinformation in Ireland. They include “nativist narratives” that “oppose migration”, “gender and sexuality narratives” that touch on drag queens and trans issues as “part of a wider ‘anti-woke’ narrative that mocks social justice campaigns”, and “environment narratives” that criticise climate-change policies and Greta Thunberg.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/25/the-digital-services-act...

This gives the EU an extraordinary amount of power. The regulation of the DSA will be overseen by the Commission itself, not an independent regulator. What’s more, the DSA includes a ‘crisis-management mechanism’, added last year in a last-minute amendment. The Commission argued it needs to be able to direct how platforms respond to events like the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Apparently, in a crisis, the ‘anticipatory or voluntary nature’ of obligations on tech companies to tackle disinformation would be insufficient. Under the DSA, the Commission has given itself the power to determine whether such a ‘crisis’ exists, defined as ‘an objective risk of serious prejudice to public security or public health in the Union’.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/the-eus-censorship-...

mavu · 2 years ago
You call it "censorship", I call it fighting disinformation, fear mongering and state-actor propaganda campaigns.

I would welcome measures that go a lot further than this.

mavu commented on Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point   techcrunch.com/2023/08/16... · Posted by u/webmaven
dchest · 2 years ago
Dieter Rams's Ten principles of good design state:

5. Good design is unobtrusive. Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.

6. Good design is honest. It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It doesn't attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

If you read these principles and reverse them, you get your typical "product art" — a product form of clickbait titles — an attention-grabbing product that's intended to shock and generate PR, not sell the actual thing.

Such products are usually shallow: stylized to some theme without deeply understanding it, like user interfaces from movies, or like Lcroium's* own website (https://acrnm.com), which is stylized with useless _underscores and [brackets] without understanding why they are used in computing.

*) that's how you read ACRONYM's logo if you know Cyrillic.

mavu · 2 years ago
This is a very bad take, and serves only to highlight the joylessness of the person writing it (and the original "design principles")

I would instantly dispute pretty much any word of the first 3 sentences in your post. (except maybe the name)

If you want to live in a world without choice, where everyone and everything looks the same (the inevitable endpoint of form follows function), be my guest, but at the end of your sad life you will remember all the times you looked back over the fence at all the people enjoying life in all its diverse forms, shapes, textures, activities and regret some choices you made along the way.

mavu commented on Google Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee   gizmodo.com/google-invite... · Posted by u/ourmandave
mavu · 2 years ago
If you are still working at google, it's time to start looking for a different employer.

u/mavu

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