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EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of techEnglish2·1 year agoHow about making bootstrapping businesses easier and providing preferable tax strategies floor small businesses? That would show down venture capital backed companies demanding a public offering and short term profit motives over sustainable businesses.
Or opening up platforms to drive increased competition?
Or providing sponsorship for open standards so users get more choice in the market instead of relying on entrenched large companies?
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New DividendEnglish16·1 year agoDoesn’t this mean that Meta has ossified and the board no longer sees growth opportunities?
Send like bad news for investors long on growth and prospects of the meta verse.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from appEnglish2·1 year agoThere’s a lot on it.
It’s not just girls in things standing in a hot tub flossing.
I don’t like the company, I don’t use the product. But it is what Facebook was in 2010.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime SubscriptionEnglish4·1 year agoAmazons average take is over 50%, so naturally it’s not cheap to sell on.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime SubscriptionEnglish3·1 year agoMost of the books I buy are reference books, that site actually has a decent stock, thanks!
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime SubscriptionEnglish3·1 year agoAmazon is bad at packaging books lately. I’d say 1/3 orders are damaged. My last one was both misprinted and the envelope was unsealed, so the book arrived bent, wet, and blurry.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime SubscriptionEnglish4·1 year agoCostco can be worth it
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime SubscriptionEnglish6·1 year agoAmazon takes 50% on average now
They’re only cutting fees in categories competing with Shein
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-reduced-seller-fees-to-compete-with-shein-2023-12
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime SubscriptionEnglish551·1 year agoI’ll go further, I stopped using Amazon entirely and I don’t miss it.
The junky shopping experience is especially clear once you leave and come back.
I only ever order books from amazon anymore, and usually only when I get a gift card or a product isn’t for sale elsewhere.
The prices aren’t even that good anymore.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in TotalEnglish32·1 year agoOh my God, that’s awful!
I hope the US responds by installing more solar panels this year than China ever has!
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staffEnglish3·1 year agoFold home automation IP into Alexa brand, keep iRobot vacuum brand but increase data exfiltration, and put ads on all searches to increase sales, layoff the
scrubsR&D team would be the natural playbook.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•GoFundMe Is a Boon for Disaster Survivors. Especially the Wealthy Ones. Campaigns on the crowdfunding site raised more money for wildfire survivors with high incomes than for those who need help mostEnglish14·1 year agoBut really, isn’t it the rich who lost the most? And doesn’t that entitle them to more?
It’s like Jesus once said “the meek shall inherit the earth, but only after I let the rich have their way with it for a few thousand years, then maybe we’ll see”
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader saysEnglish5·1 year agoG3T-B3NT-4ND-ST4Y-4W4Y
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader saysEnglish241·1 year agoAs an AI language model, I promise I will tell your secrets, unless you pay for an enterprise license.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Big tech is thriving despite the layoffsEnglish8·1 year agoYeah. Spend a decade or more building resilient architecture, sure, you can now fire people. Good luck building on it though.
Chesterton’s fence is pretty important in tech, and the community sucks at documentation while working.
Also: I work in tech, holy fuck the burnout I’ve experienced these last two years is being anything I’ve experienced before.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix says Vision Pro is too 'subscale' for it to care aboutEnglish171·1 year agoThey already don’t even give a shit about their AppleTV app… why would they care about this.
Poor Netflix, it’s not like they’re worth a quarter trillion dollars or anything.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix wants to retire basic ad-free plan in some countries, shareholder letter saysEnglish19·1 year agoJust sign up for tinder and go on Netflix and chill dates, when your date goes to the bathroom cancel their subscription and slip out the door.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.English33·1 year agoHonestly a lot actually has changed in that time.
So much info has leaked that it’s a lot easier to phish users than ever. There are dumps of usernames and passwords, so you can know several websites they use as starting points for fraud.
Password reuse and credentials stuffing are also common now, which means if teens reuse passwords you can get into manu of their accounts.
I like to thread the needle between “useful verification of identity” and “not a horrifying invasion of privacy that puts everyone in our society at risk”
Reading these kinds of things will just result in is creating horrible identification laws like having to scan your face each time you want to watch porn.