EduardoBautista

From what I understand it’s not just about spying. The Chinese Communist Party knows how harmful and addictive the algorithm is that the Chinese version of the app focuses on showing higher quality content (quality as judged by them).

So if they know it’s harmful, they have an interest on showing low quality content to the western audience and possibly psychologically and intellectually affect an entire generation.

Multiple monitors when travelling would be my use case.

How so? It’s still significantly better than cable because there is no contract and you are not paying for services you don’t want to use.

Could a married couple get their own E2 visas individually and then get each other on a dependent visa to have an open work permit?

If you’ve ever had a gun or knife pointed at you, trust me that “walkability” is not going to be high on your priorities of what makes a city a good place to live. The UAE is safer than Switzerland.

> It's impossible to walk anywhere.

That is fair. I guess my comparison is San Diego (where I grew up) and Mexico, where I lived all of my adult life until moving to Dubai in 2022.

The city is building a new metro line and improving on walkability as new neighborhoods of high population density pop up. It will still be very focused on shopping malls with AC because of the heat during the summers. Official records of real estate transactions have a data point for "closest shopping mall" for a reason.

It also makes money from construction projects. It’s one of the big reasons they offer residence visas to people who buy real estate there.

I live in Dubai but grew up in the United States. Despite what people may believe, there is freedom of religion here, women aren’t oppressed, and the government genuinely cares about having a good city to live in.

I agree. I even like to silence notifications on different messaging apps depending on my focus mode on iOS/macOS.

Linux started receiving corporate backing within a few years of it being released. Red Hat played a huge role in providing support and someone to turn to when something went wrong.

> but it would have gotten there without them too, albeit much slower

No, it wouldn't have. There is no way that a bunch of volunteers in their spare time could achieve the same results, what took many full-time employees and contributions from the largest and most powerful corporations in the world.

> Why should local governments use taxpayers’ money to buy proprietary, closed software from a single vendor?

I don't want to be a pessimist, but working with non-traditional tools is going to cost the taxpayers more money when important documents are not formatted correctly or the software behaves differently than the proprietary alternatives.

Linux is successful on the server because it has huge corporate backing. Linux has not been successful on the desktop because it has low corporate backing.

The cost of Microsoft Office is comparable to the cost of keeping their workplace stocked with coffee throughout the year.

Well yeah. Linux is basically funded and contributed to “by a bunch of big tech corporate interest”. Even Microsoft contributes to it.

The devs at Reddit don't get to choose what they work on. They are paid to build what they are told to build. And that's fine. It's just a job.

University football and basketball coaches are also government employees. They have no problem receiving millions of dollars in compensation.

And yet universities can afford to pay millions of dollars to football and basketball coaches.

I thought the same thing at first. Then I realized Google already has this info about me and more. So I just split up my searches between Google, DDG, and Kagi.

I cannot imagine the stress of being a fast food manager. I wouldn't survive a week.

A previous coworker used to get into the office early, around 7am, because they dropped off their kid at school. They also left around 3pm. This is reasonable and would be accepted by any competent manager.

The Apple Studio Display looks nicer. I would prefer that items that I own in my apartment look nice. Aluminum looks and feels nicer than plastic. Yes, I will pay a premium for that.

That is Tesla, not SpaceX.

I’d rather a junior dev completely destroy a front-end environment than a back-end environment.

> The company’s platforms have been used to fuel the spread of terrorism and violent extremism, mass violence and online harassment.

Why don't people criticize ISPs for spreading these through their infrastructure? Or criticize Apple and Google for allowing people to use their products to achieve similar goals?

I really want to see congress grill the CEOs of Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. "What do you mean HTTPS? So you don't know? Unbelievable..."

Netflix hasn't updated the Meta Quest's app in a while. The video quality is awful. Netflix is ignoring this market completely, it's not specific to the VP.

A few years ago there would be people defending GitLab for “transparency” every time something went wrong.

They even went overboard with the transparency and made public some slack conversations which for me would have made it one of the worst places to work.

I usually only have one active subscription at a time.

You are right.

A startup would, instead, never show an ad, allow themselves to run out of money, upload a photo of themselves crying on LinkedIn about letting go all of their staff, and then say that they just couldn't find a way to monetize the app.

I am sure these ideas have been thrown around at YouTube, but maybe a better alternative would be limiting videos to only 720p resolution for non-premium users, for example.

There is a reason no other competitor has emerged. Not even Netflix offers 1080p on their basic _paid_ plan, which I recall being limited to 720p.

YouTube fills the role of the scapegoat. Creators are never blamed for choosing the path that pays them the most.

Artists playing at venues that use Ticketmaster is a similar situation.

Sure, some of these artists can _choose_ not to perform at these venues, just like the YouTube creators can _choose_ not to upload videos to YouTube.

Scapegoat as a service.

How is that they thought adding a keyboard shortcut to open LinkedIn would be good use for a new key?

I've never heard of this domain before, so I shouldn't click on it because vulnerabilities in the browser are still routinely discovered.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but if you trust clicking on links in a browser, QR codes should be fine as well.

> Unfortunately, you don't know where the QR code leads you before you scan it and then it is already too late.

iOS shows the domain if it is a URL and you have to tap it. It's no different from tapping on a link on a website, which I would say is more insecure since you don't even get the domain info before tapping.