Posts by jumblist 14 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Sep 2021
Genuine question as I don’t understand it, but could his behaviour be an autism or aspergers thing? Does he just not have the capacity to understand people?
I don’t see how a purported genius could get things so badly wrong. You can argue the political merits of allowing Trump back on there, but people banned for harassment? Who’s cheerleading that??
It’s as if his idea of a town square is actually the centre of Blackpool at midnight on a Friday night
An interesting topic of discussion that this article touches upon is how we see our online social spaces evolving over the next 50 years or so. It seems increasingly clear that any responsible society cannot leave the fate of these to the whims of private companies and super wealthy individuals, who are corruptible and often have dubious intentions with no sense of civic duty.
Twitter gets a lot of stick, rightly so in many cases, but hidden away underneath all of the shouting and screaming there are networks of many thousands of high value accounts sharing knowledge and insight, informing people around the world. These networks have a positive social impact globally that will shortly be lost, and to what end? Over time they will reform elsewhere, but for how long will the next platform endure?
I'm not confident that Mastodon is the answer, but I think it's on the right track. Will be interesting to see how it evolves. The lesson of the last days of Twitter seems to be that a successful 'global town square' will never endure under the control of one individual who enjoys playing god.
I like to try and find the positives, and maybe a left wing nudist hippy becoming a psychotic far right conspiracy loon gives us hope that one day all the psychotic far right conspiracy loons might chill out and become left wing nudist hippies. I will live in hope.
Nah they'll adopt it globally next year. Makes sense, most consumers want it anyway. They should have done it a couple of years back really, now they look silly.
They definitely won't go wireless only. Wireless charging is less practical in most use cases, less efficient, and besides all that it still requires a cable that is vastly more expensive than usb. Wireless only would tank iPhone sales.
That's essential viewing for many commenters here. Wireless charging in its current form is clearly not a sensible solution.
FWIW Apple were probably going to switch their phones to USB C anyway, their iPads and laptops already use it and lightening is increasingly old hat. Meanwhile although the standard will evolve the form factor and backward compatibility of USB C will persevere for a long time. It's not even a discussion really, I don't understand why people seem to get so wound up about this stuff.
Anecdotal of course, but I've been completely unsuccessful in my attempts to encourage my daughter to code and now she's turned down the chance to take Computer Science GCSE. I've never pressured her, but I've been trying to gently nudge her towards it for years. Despite being incredibly similar to me in most ways and a massive dweeb she's just not having it.
I wonder if this might in part be due to the way the subject is approached. Her teacher says she's good at it but lacks the patience to deal with the frustration of trial and error, so she quickly becomes annoyed and gets despondent. Learning that perseverance brings rewards is definitely an important factor I think.
But then maybe it's just not for her I guess.
Not disagreeing. As you say we could and should do more for refugees. Pointing out how many bullets we’ve sent and whatabouting the actions of other nations just doesn’t cut it as a justification for our inaction to date. We’d be helping out both Ukrainians and our allies, particularly Poland. We can afford it, and it would be well worth the good will accrued in the long run.
In one of the more shameful episodes from recent history most European nations turned away Jewish refugees in the lead up to WW2, leaving them to their grim fate. Must never be repeated. Poland can’t keep taking in refugees indefinitely, what happens then? We have a moral obligation to stop making excuses and do our bit.
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