So... robocop.
tony
joined 2 years ago
I figured it was a massive shoutout to Apple :p
I'm sure it'll be a stylised X with serifs on each corner.
Possibly on a red and white background.
Has he deleted all his tweets since 2022 or is twitter just more broken than usual?
I have a galaxy watch 5 but even 3 days of batteryife is irritating enough I'm looking longingly at the Garmin's. Really don't need a lot of the fluff they come with
I also have a Watchy. The thing is in no way a consumer device but it lasts over a week and the eink display is great. Reminds me of what we lost when pebble went away..
You follow someone who is on mastodon.social, they see the follow, look at your profile and follow you back
Or you reply to a thread, someone on mastodon.social sees it, thinks you sound like someone they'd find interesting and follows you.
I suggest adding some relays otherwise the only posts reaching your server will be things you yourself have followed, which makes hashtags a bit useless.
My current active relay list is: https://bigrelay.social/inbox https://relay.toot.io/inbox https://relay.intahnet.co.uk/inbox
But those are just what works for me.. not any particular recommendation.
Then follow lots of interesting people. Look on other servers if you're stuck, eg. the live feeds on mastodon.social. The more you follow the more conversations you'll see and find more interesting people. People who boost a lot are a goldmine for discovery (some people make a hobby of boosting eg. https://mastodon.social/@lisamelton).
We luckily rarely see them here. I saw one once (could have been a nissan? It was so big it was taller than me and I'm 6 foot..).. the owner had attempted to park it in a local car park, it took up two bays and still stuck out into the road. I felt sorry for them.. just nowhere to put something like that.. how the hell they managed to manoeuvre it in and out of the car park I have no idea..
They do it to disguise the cost. When the first leaf came out the battery was the majority of the cost of the car.. everything that was added on to make it a 'car' was cheap by comparison. So they added frills to get people to pay that much.. and it worked.
Even now, when batteries are considerably cleaner, they're a decent part of the cost - everyone wants a car that can do 300 miles.. that dictates a certain size and weight (given current energy densities) and the companies have to build a car around that.
Effectively if you made a kirkland car with few features it'd cost almost as much as the current EV crop and nobody would buy one to the lack of features. About cheapest so far is the MG ZS, and that's a £30k car. The £15-20k runabout that everyone wants just isn't feasable without compromising range beyond what most would accept.
Whatsapp is under the same rules and has said they'd leave too.. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/08/whatsapp-could-disappear-uk-over-privacy-concerns-ministers-told
But although it's popular it's nowhere near everyone using it.. I have about 2 whatsapp contacts and one of those is a mailing list. Most people I know use FB messenger. A few signal.. It really depends on who your friend groups are..
25% of profits for wilfully breaching privacy law... that's actually quite low given what creative accounting can do for profits.
GDPR maximum fine is 4% of global turnover. Luckily for amazon it's capped otherwise they'd be on the hook for billions.
I actually wonder why, to play devils advocate a bit.
If I'm watching a film and it's starring, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger part of the deal is I'm getting him specifically. The whole package. An AI that looks like him isn't the same thing at all, and can't be said to be starring him.
But his face or his voice isn't valuable on its own - it's his reputation as a good actor. That's why he's paid the big bucks.
Say the studio has an AI that can replicate an actors acting ability perfectly.. they don't.. but let's say they do one day.. Why would they need the face? Once you can generate an near infinite number of good actors, individual personalities don't mean a lot.