limer
@limer@lemmy.ml
Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech. Earlier
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 5 days ago:
If you look at the Chinese press and social media no sale is expected.
Trump has a history of announcing sales without agreement. He did it before he was president.
Also at this point he had lied and broken promises so much the Chinese cannot rely on agreements, they can only try to not engage in non constructive ways.
People should not listen to Trump
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 5 days ago:
I think China and ByteDance are silent to not aggravate the situation, and I see no incentive to sell. Most likely TicToc will quietly cooperate with the American government more, or the service will be banned
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 5 days ago:
Why does anyone think this is true or will happen? Did ByteDance or the Chinese government say anything?
- Comment on Mozilla Welcomes Raffi Krikorian as Chief Technology Officer | The Mozilla Blog 1 week ago:
Just because he worked for bad organizations does not make him a bad cto. But if he was chosen from better candidates because of that, then yes.
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s in those corners ignored by the big companies that true innovation will be seen.
That innovation will replace them later
- Comment on No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords 4 weeks ago:
For anyone concerned about this; please login, using your google credentials, to your nearest scam website
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 1 month ago:
I used the word 50 years ago in a conversation once; I own it
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
It’s like watching an online version of Brexit, without the referendum
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 2 months ago:
Users are funneled towards actions exploited by both politics and greed. Many have no choice.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 2 months ago:
I design systems similar to this; in my mindset the competency and privacy are the same.
There is simply no way anyone competent or knowledgeable would have made this series of mistakes in good faith. And it’s very hard for someone not knowledgeable about the tech to understand the magnitude.
It’s rather like designing and selling car with bad breaks, and your car gets into an accident which could have been avoided had the breaks worked. But nobody could test the breaks fully?
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 2 months ago:
Indeed, how can anyone know?
I think failures like this will be readily apparent, within months after launch, to technically minded people only. But only if people have summaries in their news feeds or know how to research the opinions of others…
Perhaps non technical people should wait at least a year or two of before trying a new service? By then the worst of them will have crashed or be found out.
This will not be the last time it happens. With llm coding, I think there will be dozens similar to this in a few years
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 2 months ago:
It is too bad all these people trusted a bad company which cared little about them or their privacy.