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I’m not sure I always buy into the idea that precision is bad and broadly accessible is good. Not in this era of anti-intellectualism at least.

But I definitely see your point, if you are talking about making things accessible. Vague claims of “they just want to sound smart” smell of anti-intellectualism to me.

Isn’t it just precision?

huh, interesting! It’s The Mythical Man-Month! That book was published back in 1975. They definitely know better, but must be in quite a pickle.

Where’s that federation?

And how would this fit in? Are they just going to build a bunch of excuses into the platform, and then claim it’s now impossible?

Yeah, cover your shame.

Logged out YouTube was covered up a few years ago.

Are we aware of any big name titles that are not complete because they didn’t have actors?

Is there any chance this contributed to latest GTA6 delay?

Or did all of the major studios just switch to actors that are not part of a guild/union?

Makes me think of Dell.

Domestic US cars can’t compete with foreign cars. We’ve known that forever. Or at least since the 90s.

Growing up in the 90s in Wisconsin, all the conservatives around me always talked shit about foreign cars.

I can’t comprehend how they justified it. But I also knew nothing about cars.

It was only back in ~2016 that I realized how much building a car is similar to building a computer. Supply chains, common parts, designs made to fit common “cases”. Etc etc.

It’s exceptionally difficult to build a browser from the ground up.

But if anyone could do it, it would be a company with the money and (supposed) intelligence they have in their ranks.

There’s a group making a new browser engine though, I think it’s called ladybird?

Service contracts are where the money is at!

Sure, then the post just doesn’t need any upvotes, imo.

I find mass down votes on such things to be toxic behavior. Tech savvy or not. I mean, it’s basically toxic nerd behavior.

And that was just an example on hand. I’ve seen it in other communities too, again, when the news was positive or neutral and fit the community even better than talking about a single web browser in a general tech community.

I should add that this phenomenon overlaps with another, where a post will get a bunch of downvotes initially, and then “recover” or get back past zero. Many of these seem to be related to brigading or malicious bot activity. So, many of the examples I’ve run across end up being something else.

Just for context, I usually browse Lemmy All and my Home feed with the Active/hot in the last 6 hours view. So I see lots of young posts, relatively speaking.

It’s often a place for Linus to rant about how he understands business better than his audience.

What? Random positive or neutral news gets vote bombed on Apple communities too.

Lemmy is weird. It’s not uncommon to see relevant posts downvoted in a variety of communities.

Here’s one about Edge getting faster from today. It feels like at the worst, it should sit at zero upvotes.

Y’all got any of that federation?

I wonder if a segregated TikTok will be more or less of a hellscape.

Don’t we ban Chinese phones for the same actions?

Fair enough.

I dunno man. He seems pretty cogent to me. Even if I don’t agree with him.

I’ll add that people assume anonymity, and look at view counts as permission. It’s a feedback loop that is new and hyper optimized to corrode society if left unchecked.

TikTok. I’ve long suspected the name of the app references the fact that we are so close to midnight.