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> Online tech-hyping articles are now driven by the same dynamics as fake news.

Well that's something to think about. I do wonder how all the tech "trends" that i read here begin

alarming to whom?

career requires a certain progression ladder

If the bizarre world of tech goes full circle back to php&jquery , i ll have won a 10 y o bet

he has a career?

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On the desktop, if you start talking while muted , it will show a pop up that "you are muted". They probably have the same feature in ios

Thats no reason to switch to electon though

^ This. Skype as an app was downgraded, features gone never to return. I know nobody in MS uses it, because otherwise they d know of its glaring bugs

and we're back to MS Access ! about time, really

techcrunch?

yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNy_GNWwhQk

> At WWDC, Apple shared Safari stats

> I started using HEY last week

refreshing to see a person who 's not suggestable and easily swayed by fads

Maybe instead of trying to damage fb directly, nytimes could instead write about the countless social communities that facebook destroyed abd sidelined over the years. It s not long ago that nytimes was writing praises about facebook, we remember.

Unfortunately these days it doesn’t seem that nytimes holds itself to a higher moral standard than fb

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/business/smallbusiness/12...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html

why should domain names have any privately identifying information with them anyway? it's not technically required.

it's useful in mobile though!

"The EU" can't enforce this list to member states - it's up to each government to act. it also can't "reinstate stricter borders" - EU is not a government.

It's not surprising that countries want to avoid travelers from infected countries though. There are already tourists with infection that tried to "sneak in" to the south by traveling through germany for example.

Going forward, containment a-la new zealand seems to be the most viable economically solution for reopening, even if tourism is gone for a year or two.

even before the pandemic, it was known as the most reliable chat for largish meetings. Nothing else worked so well, and it still doesn.t

Second life has been hosting virtual concerts for 15 years. They have apparently seen a huge spike in signups during covid , that they ran out of virtual land to sell

Has someone repackaged the decades-old phone hotlines as an app and named it Clubhouse?

chrome keeps changing downloaded images to webP which is annoyin af. can't even find a way to disable it

What is OBS used for?

Most of the reported news is N=1 events. If the news reported averages instead, it wouldn't sell

Aren’t they already a legally protected profession?

i never visit reddit's frontpage, i visit instead the individual subreddits that i frequent at. In fact i wonder why the frontpage exists. Voat would do a service to themselves if they removed the frontpage.

These sites rely on network effect, which become prominent after a certain threshold of users join the site. If they reach critical mass, they will suck in the rest of the extreme-right, then the republicans then slowly everyone, because people like controversy and will seek to go where they can have it.

Reddit is clearly a leftwing site now in ways that it wasnt when it started (when libertarian was the dominant ethos). All their "common word" reddits, such as news, politics, technology science are purely leftist echo chambers by now. The few rightwing corners left are already isolated and ready to make the move. In fact they may even decide they should jump ship. What better time for /r/t_d to go somewhere else than now, when people's interest is intensely focused in elections and they can easily rally all their users to follow them. Wherever they go, more people of other persuasions will follow, because people love telling other people that they are wrong on the internet.

The question is if those other competitors can stand the traffic and whether they give the features to moderators that reddit does.

Yeah. It s like advertising to poor countries because CPMs are lower there

No, not all users andrew. Pay the users that create content that gets popular, not people just for existing. Creating a data trail is not valuable IP.

I m actually surprised at the amount of content that people give away to these platforms, even here.

A major reason is that there is no legal mechanism for users to directly pay other users. Things like brave attention token are steps in the right direction

Because competitors exist

from their video, Hey.com is more like an asynchronous chat system that happens to use SMTP as the communication protocol, they just store your contact list for you. It s got some good ideas, but those had better be implemented as extensions to smtp servers. Would be neat to be able to control our contacts list without siloing them behind a private company.

in any case glad to see hey.com continuing to get more attention