They’re like an idea a twelve year old Steve Jobs / Jony Ive wannabe would come up with.

I hate fucking “flush handles”. Good riddance to terrible garbage.

Stuff like this had to be killed as part of the corporate initiative to never allow anyone to have a moment of peace ever again.

Nope, right pocket for keys because I usually hold the dog on the left when carrying him out to pee. It lets me lock the door easily while holding the dog.

Phone front left Keys and wallet front right

I have a slimline wallet and a clamshell phone.

Nope. Making Reddit as mildly addictive as it was likely took more than just a generic application of the type.

In that way, Lemmy’s development motivations make this platform (IMO) a lot healthier, because it wasn’t purposefully tweaked into something addictive by a group of sociopaths holding boring dystopia meetings looking to appease the shareholders or the ownership.

A key difference here is that Framework is trying to build a “community”. At least some of their value depends upon community if you think about it for a bit (e.g., if nobody uses the marketplaces, they’d be empty of goods and a lot of the point is lost).

If they center assholes as being representative of what the community is about, they naturally exclude others by doing so.

It’s easy to take the “can’t we all just get along?” stance with this, but some things require a little more reasoning and philosophy than platitudes.

What good is a big tent if most normal people left the tent because you platformed assholes at its center?

It probably works with both meanings (and is a bit cringey because of that), but I kinda read it as she’s talking about him overall as being kind of a redwood tree…which would make sense, because he’s 6’5" tall and 250lbs. That’s a pretty massive dude.

I get no longer supporting products, but bricking them?

I think what’s happening in the background here is these “Internet of Trash” devices hook to cloud infrastructure for which the business no longer wants to pay.

If they were interested in actually building something useful, they would open up their API layers and add a way to link them to different services. But since they don’t give a fuck about you as a customer, they plan poorly as a business, and they have no ability to produce well-engineered software, instead they code everything so that it is hopelessly coupled (probably through hard-coded things up to and including certificates) with specific garbage they made, make it impossible to move to anything else, and then brick your shit.

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AI video generation will have tonnes and tonnes of crap, but it will also have masterpieces.

Doubt.

To use another example, a musician might be known to be an asshole during their lifetime. Then they die. Is it harmful to listen to their music if you’re not contributing anything to their estate or their estate isn’t run by similar assholes? It’s debatable and a gray area, but I’d probably say no in most circumstances.

How about if they’re known to be an asshole and you buy their albums anyway, you go to their concerts, and you loudly pronounce on social media how you support them and that their work is great? That’s a much easier case to make to say, yes, you’re being harmful.

You’re supporting someone who is an asshole, and you’re doing–at least–two types of harm:

(1) you’re demonstrating tolerance for shitty behavior which does not provide a good negative reinforcement to correct the shitty behavior, and

(2) you’re positively reinforcing the shitty behavior through your support

It might be more nuanced if there were higher stakes involved, such as if the good belying this debate was of crucial need to help along a much larger good cause. But that’s where particulars matter. The contributions these assholes are making are not solving world hunger. They’re nerdy little Linux bits.

Use the bullshit all you want, but for fuck’s sake stop materially supporting and going on a promotional tour with the assholes that made it.

To put it in terms of your analogy, it’s one thing to use Mengele’s research after he’s been stopped. It’s another entirely to give his research funding when he’s actively running the program.

One is making use of knowledge that comes out of terrible things, the other is complicity that borders on collaboration.

First step is to make slop feeds full of bullshit.

Well the first step was into a fucking cow pie, so that doesn’t bode well for the next one

Being rich is pretty fucking obviously mostly about being born to rich parents.

This sounds very cool. I’m a programmer by profession but used to love drawing animations as a kid. I should try to make something like this.

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This is a great idea for a project honestly.

While this is mostly true it’s certainly the case that publicly traded companies have strong incentives to grow.

Private companies mostly have the ownership, and/or the desire to go public to blame.