It’s an exploration ship… that’s almost big enough to qualify as a mobile starbase given the civilian population. Having armaments isn’t stupid, especially given how often they rejiggered the phasers to act as a tool rather than a weapon.
35th rule of acquisition: Peace is good for Business.
Or maybe it’s the other way around I always get those two mixed up.
I’ve been hearing that one for thirty years.
The important thing is people can’t just casually reprogram the damned thing.
having an ability to diagnose and correct without cracking your head open is fine, but it has to be a way that’s 'you’re giving positive affirmation that you’re OK with it or a medical professional is physically having to plug a thing in or on or … just so it can’t be ‘oh hey yo ustepped through these induction plates. we turned your anti-siezure chip off due to your non-compliance.’
Well the best way to not have us talk about Musk like he’s a moron is for Musk to stop acting like a moron.
Given a descendant of this technology has the potential for seizure moderation, which is something my sister basically will need as the medication she uses will inevitably require doses that would destroy her liver or leave her all but vegetative. It’s super interesting from a technical aspect and hyper-relevant.
However, given Musk’s antics especially as of late? I wouldn’t trust him to not accidentally intentionally kill people, or use it as a way to have an unremovable keylogger with the end goal of ‘Oh those are some nice eyes you’ve got there,’ or ‘lovely able to live without going into convulsions isn’t it? It’d be a shame if that changed.’
Dude’s political flambaiting. Flag and move on.
Eh. I’ll let the younger generation have their fun. These days I’m more interested in the technical aspects than the actual content.
That’s kinda what you find out over time and as you see platforms crumble.
the platform itself is just a wrapper for the discussions. If you can find somewhere with those discussions? The wrapper is irrelevant.
Buttered, seasalt, carmel, or are you going full crackerjacks?
i’m going crackerjacks on this one. Went seasalt for twitter.
Dude, my bullshit meter blew its fuses and the magic smoke’s poured out.
‘What’s Scum?’
‘bankers, politicians, cattle kings. Scum.’
Also, as a disabled internet user, those APIs are of value for the sake of accessability. Given Reddi’ts own app is, and forgive me to use technical jargon here, steaming pile of bullshit even for those with perfect vision?
Yea fuck you too spez.
I come from the era of the BBS. The PHP Forum. SlashDot, and Digg. I come from online games ranging from EverQuest, to Multiverse Crisis MUSH, to Moments in Tyme, to Warframe, and More. I have walked messenger clients from the times of AiM, IRC and Yahoo, to Skype, Steam, and Discord.
In my thirty years of being online, this is not the first petty tyrant claiming that upset users are the problem rather than taking a long hard look in the mirror. This will not be the last.
The best we can do is grab popcorn and watch as his platform dies. He won’t admit to making any mistakes. Especially with money involved because he’s under the deluded belief that showing any weakness invites a price drop from investors. Yet this behavior? It REEKS of weakness and insecurity.
Migrate and Move On. the rest is just playing u/spez’s game.
Funny coming from a techbro that thought to farm out getting site content from that userbase he’s now wanting money from.
Like I get it if he’s wanting to not go into debt, but at the same time he’s shot any chance at user good will and assistance in the face with a cluster fat man.
The writers demands seem quite reasonable and I hope that this conflict is resolved.
Then being forced to think about the firehose of shit he puts out.