I love the concept (and was going to hack something for myself).
I can’t get through onboarding. The main omnara command just exits complaining of a missing session id and doing “serve” asks you to set up sessions on a page that doesn’t exist?
> It was hurtful to hear Google thought our site was of “little value” to the web.
I read some of the guides. Google is right that there’s little unique content here.
Perhaps this is the right tone for a letter to the FTC. I find it hard to sympathize with the author with this style (even though they are likely right that Google is killing the web)
The deep irony is that some of the original contributors to Birdwatch were working on this stuff at Facebook before being blocked for various reasons and leaving to work at Twitter.
To steelman this a bit, early versions of Birdwatch had problems with unsourced notes and speed of note display. There’s a bunch of research that shows that 1st impressions of info tend to dominate, so speed matters a lot.
In practice FB’s program was poorly resourced and overly complex so I’m not sure it ever achieved its theoretically lower latency.
Ben Thompson tried to make this case in various places when Amazon was sued by the FTC. Roughly “businesses should be able to make a case for why you should still be a subscriber”.
I disagree. Fuck subscriptions, they’re predatory.
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Ehhh at this point Apple’s privacy strategy is little more than marketing. Sure they’ll push stuff to the edge to save themselves money and book the win, but they also are addicted to the billions they make selling your searches to Google.
Ugh, CarPlay 1 is exactly the division of responsibilities I want. I don’t want Apple anywhere near the actual driving functions and instruments. It takes a long time for my car to connect to CarPlay and it’d be super distracting to have the instruments suddenly change to Apple’s as I’m driving.
Are you a principal eng? The principal engs I’ve known express things in terms of measurable business problems. You have a list of practices with no success criteria.
When we were transitioning away from card catalogs I heard similar complaints from my teachers. We all adapted.