If you ever feel useless just remember somebody designed and implemented the share-to-facebook feature on porn sites.
That isn’t there so people use it. That is there so that Facebook can track where you go
Course they only need a 1px by 1px image for that right?
Shoutout Facebook Container for Firefox, or Firefox if you’re still using a browser that’s killing the open web 😉
At this point both of these guys are saying “I have seen horrible things”
They’re both the same guy, just one’s wearing a hat
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
No man. That is a brilliant feature that has caught out many “anti-gay” politician’s.
Wanted to prove people used those buttons, but maybe not (need to use better/unblocked terms I suppose):
Low Stakes Conspiracies: that share button is there to get users banned. Activist admins or funded by Musk himself?
(Yeah, they pulled a permanent Twitter Taylor Swift on Pornhub.)
Proof 404 (2003)
I didn’t believe you but can confirm this blank search within the Facebook app. Instagram, by the same parent company, has lots of results though. Guess all the puritanical boomers are on Facebook not Insta
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some sort of “shadow ban” style component to this. I think Tumblr does something like that where postsand tags that are marked as sexually explicit can’t be found by searching for them, but if you’re following the person, you can see them.
If you’re ever depressed about building useless software just remember - leveraged buyouts are a thing. You could buy your company for nothing by just putting massive debt in the company account and actually manage it right.
Well, in theory, in actuality this piece of accounting bullshit is reserved for vulture capitalists that will destroy the value of the company and asshats (see: Elon Musk) that will destroy the value of the company.
Capitalism destroys everything that we build!
Well unless you somehow able to liquidate more money than the debt, the lender is the fool. The original founder practically got an exit that all startups wanted, you get the cheated money, but the lender gets nothing. You have to be able to fool someone into this position first.
Oh certainly. I’m sure Elon Musk is totally going to pay that loan back. It’s impossible that he bought out Twitter just to be able to ban people who pointed out how much of an asshat he is. Also, Trump somehow keeps getting loans and he’s loses more money every month than most of us make in a decade - that’s the sort of savvy businessman you can trust.
At the same time capitalism has built almost everything we have.
That’s a pretty hot take saying that on the internet considering the Internet got its start as a government program. Hell, a lot of the fiber in the US was done through corporate welfare programs. A lot of rural places wouldn’t even have Internet if it weren’t for our taxes going to the common good (like socialism!). Let’s not forget all the things that came out of NASA and government funded universities.
He’ll, I like a bit of capitalism. A well regulated market that promotes competition can be fantastic. But to say almost everything came from capitalism is either ignorant, willfully stupid, or so full of propaganda that you can’t possibly be a functional adult.
Yeah it’s obviously as much of a hot take as it is to say “capitalism destroys everything”, which is what I was responding to.
I’ve grown up in a well regulated market economy, probably one of those countries the American right wing would call communist because, hey, you get a free education and health care, so I’ll be the first to acknowledge the role of the state.
The problem with most of online is that it’s seen through American lenses. When most people say communism they mean free healthcare and when most people say capitalism, they mean robber-baron free-wheeling markets without unions where cash is king and lobbyist are seen as a healthy part of government.
I’d like to be someplace in the middle please.
But bear in mind I was reacting to someone saying “capitalism destroys everything” and I mean, for Darwin’s sake, look around you. Almost everything I can see and touch has been delivered by a for-profit business operating in a capitalist society (one that for me has always, and should always, be well regulated).
I’m 46, married for 16 years, 4 kids and held a steady job since 18. I’ll leave it with you to decide if that’s a functioning adult or not. But thanks for getting personal, that really elevated the debate.
If you don’t want it to get personal then don’t fight common Lemmy hyperbole with what is known to be a talking point of the “everything that I don’t like is communism” dude bros.
Hell , I agree with everything you said. I like what you said. Seeing someone with my exact views that comes from a place where it happens warms the cockles of my heart. Maybe in the sub cockles. Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the colon, I don’t know.
Maybe I’m a little sensitive because I live in a place where what you said is the lie we’re told every day. I watch the kind of people who say it and wonder when they’re going back to jail for meth or stealing a car. I go back to my hometown and watch the people there say that through their single tooth and really believe it. They can’t get better mouth bone care because they can’t afford it, but they’re sure robber barons will fix it.
So if I came off as an ass, I apologize. I deal with those people every fucking day of my life and have for over 4 decades.
At the same time capitalism has built almost everything we have.
Almost everything I can see and touch has been delivered by a for-profit business operating in a capitalist society
There’s a couple ways to interpret these statements.
Are you talking about innovation, progress, invention? Realistically, no. Occasionally capitalists put enough resources in the right hands that somebody working under capitalists manages to invent something good, but most real innovation doesn’t happen without government funding. Capitalists are very hesitant to risk their capital on the kind of critical R&D that is necessary to make progress. Even when it happens under capitalism, there’s no reason to think that capitalist control of the market caused it to happen - any system that gives creative people the time and resources to work on things will have as good results, at least, and it’s easy to construct a system that gives that time and resources to more creative people, with fewer bosses interfering and squashing anything that’s not seen as profitable. Capitalism is, though, very good at capturing and controlling innovation, sometimes even just killing existing innovations outright - see “embrace, extend extinguish”.
Are you talking about manufacture and delivery of final products? Sure, under capitalist systems, of course it’s all done by capitalism, as other options aren’t available, or at least, aren’t given any room. If somebody builds a fence around the lake that everyone fishes in, and takes over the fish and sells them to people who used to catch their own, do you praise that person for providing fish? Do you think landlords are providing housing?
Capitalism isn’t just commerce. Capitalism is an antidemocratic economic trait, where the production and distribution of goods, services, and information is controlled by unelected, private owners of capital. Does it “destroy everything we build” as the person you were replying to said? No, not everything, but it does destroy a lot, and control and pervert most of what’s left.
Free Software is literally communist.
Yes and I’m all for it.
It doesn’t change the core of my argument, which is to resist a comment saying “capitalism destroys everything we’ve built”.
I will admit I was being rather hyperbolic - capitalism isn’t all evil… but our current brand of capitalism is evil as fuck.
Who’s “our”? If you mean the American brand of capitalism, oh yes, that’s not a society I would prefer to live in.
I’d probably generalize it to “western” but yea - the modern greed driven society that America loves.
Pulse SMS App for Android recently updated to include:
New “Discover” Section: Find new offers, inspiring content, articles & more
On a messaging app, really??? Who wants any of those features when trying to message someone?
The great thing is that you can simply uninstall it and leave an inspiring review.
wow pulse used to be great. did luke sell? i remember he open sourced it in 2020 but the repo seems to be gone: https://github.com/klinker-apps/pulse-sms-android
edit: huh looks like they got bought in oct. 2020. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/29/it-looks-like-pulse-sms-has-been-bought-by-maple-media-get-ready-for-intrusive-ads/
(there is another repo here https://github.com/jarvanh/pulse-sms-android but i’m not sure how official it is)
You don’t understand! If you don’t keep adding new features, people will stop using your app!
Who wants simple apps that just work as intended, am I right?
The UNIX Tools Philosophy is that tools should do one thing, and they should do it well.
I wish more things followed this philosophy.Along with the even older philosophy of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Hear hear. That’s how the tools I write work as well.
We’ve created an economy where that is not sustainable.
This fact is bad imo, but it’s where we are.
Uaers need a $39.99p/m subscription to Calcly Pro.
The actual problem is if you don’t add new features, there’s nothing for people to do beyond maintenance and you aren’t going to keep good developers to only stick around for that.
So your option is new features or a new app entirely, but coming up with other good apps isn’t easy and is a huge risk.
So if you actually did good market research and spoke to users, you could find new features to add.
Beyond a tiny company or sole developer, it doesn’t really work.
Get out of here with these facts and work on that UI redesign we’re due to ship next year.
You mean the one that no one asked for, makes it harder to do the primary thing the app is designed to do, and all the involved developers have told management it’s a bad idea with a detailed list of why?
My favorite is menstruation calendars with friend lists. My least favorite is when my gynecologist wants to hang out only a week out of the month.
Please tell me this is a real world example because that’s hilariously awful.
God, I hope it’s not real. But it’s the only way to sell more analytics from a period app and thus an eventuality.
As a former product manager where the CEO led the sales team, I feel seen.
More than likely, if it’s a publicly traded company, it’s the shareholders and the board of directors.
The board’s job is to hire the CEO and demand good value for shareholders. The CEO’s job is to make the big decisions to achieve that goal quickly and then usually leave before their short term thinking falls apart. The manager’s job is to enforce whatever decisions the CEO makes, even if it is stupid or cruel. And the employee’s job is to suffer so that each layer above can look good to the layer above them.
Not to say there’s no good people in the system. My manager for most of my time there was actually a good manager who felt that his primary job was to deflect away the shit that rolled down from above so we could focus on our work, but then he got laid off along with half my coworkers.
I do miss writing software, but I really don’t miss working in the corporate world.
democracy ftw!
vim stories when
We already have tinder like for vscode: https://github.com/benawad/vsinder
Now we need github for lesbians.
git clone is a legit method for them to procreate
Isn’t that just Sourceforge?
CEOs changed the game completely after one of them played spiderman 2.
warning: the story might change the way you think how some developers are treated across the world.
for a full documentary, see this YouTube video(in German, but you can turn on the subtitles)I don’t know if the game is the best example of busineses making top-down design decisions, since that game was an obvious scam from the start.
you’re right. perhaps a better example would be YouTube suggesting videos by colour?
I never saw that, that’s legitimately funny. I’d love to be in the room when that feature was designed, and the reaction of the developer it was handed too.
Not sure why? Just because you don’t use or understand a feature, it does not mean nobody else wants it? Or do you have more insight into that?
I don’t. but adding a “feature”(I call it bloat) that doesn’t even work properly instead of, say, making search better might be a more sensible thing.
but as a commentor suspects, they might’ve added this because of black history month
The dude who made VSCode Stories sold it for some cash.
A feature so useless that I use VS Code almost daily and had no idea this existed
It was/is an extension so you would’ve had to explicitly search for and install it to see it.
I mean, credit to Microsoft and VS Code for not putting bullshit like this right in your face
the bare minimum
I agree - I’m much happier they pinned it to the Taskbar.
the CEO has read in this obscure online tech blog that …
12*2 = 24 and today I went to the store to buy some bananas but the all the bananas were too ripe #banan #banana #bananas #banani
That banana’s name? Albert Einstein.
That would be a better app for it
Either a ton of math tutorials or the calculator says boobs
Com’on guys lets all give out our Calculator handlers
This meme is the most those people have ever actually contributed to society as a whole.
What are you talking about? David kicked kinda good while having hair, and Victoria was in a band called the Spice Girls despite being a set square haunted by the ghost of a rice cracker.
Haunted by the ghost of a rice cracker
That’s just perfect imagery.
This is how smart shuffle was born on spotify. No one wants that useless shit.
