Can you please not post like this, especially in Show HN threads? It's good to let people know when your attempt to use their software runs into problems. But please do it in a helpful way, not a dismissive way.
Besides being a fiction very much supported by dictators, international law is a delusion entertained by (a) those who have never lived under a dictatorship and (b) those oblivious to the fact that their freedoms and peace depend on the protection of the world’s most powerful military.
Which is unfortunate, but a consequence of Microsoft's perennial, embrace, extend, extinguish - they embraced instant-messaging version 3 (or wherever we are now), and they're onto the extend part - extending Teams' reach by bundling it 'for free' in Office, and the OS, so people don't "need" to buy Slack.
Slack won't be 'extinguished' but it will have a falling market share, despite the dumpster fire that is Teams, and the bean-counters in most corporations getting kudos from their bosses for 'cost savings'.
Frequently fails to connect, doesn't honor system audio device settings and frequency forgets its own, frequently fails to mark messages as read, sometimes even after hitting "Mark all as read," sometimes fails to send notifications on new chats, especially on my phone.
It's the least reliable chat program I've ever used.
Yes. Although I have a vague recollection that some non-BSD tools supported a wheel group if you compiled with -DHAVE_FASCIST_SYSADMIN (see also "opinionated" elsewhere in this thread). But I can't find any trace of that using common search engines anymore, maybe I am misremembering some usenet flamewar.
One of the problems that GitHub and GitLab are going to face in the coming years, as Git gets supplanted whatever wins, is that "Git" is in the company name. Those names are going to sound they like provide yesterday's tech, in a hurry.
I don't see a venture-driven way to be the thing that replaces Git. And I don't see a way to replace Git without being developing in the open. So, no GraceHub.
They are destroying everything analog used by humans for fun and creativity, including a piano, a trumpet, paint, an arcade machine, synthesizers, and toys. In return we have one soulless bland iPad. If you have any object remotely similar to the ones depicted as destroyed, you will feel anger and pain at the sight of destruction.
Crushing the tools of art and fun into a tiny technological device is maybe a little tone-deaf in the context of AI trying to crush all scrapeable human creation into a model that would fit on that same iPad.
> People have just become overly sensitive it seems.
I hear this said a lot, but know of no psychological evidence that
people have actually become more "sensitive" (by which I mean
neurotic, defensive etc).
What's happened is that people became better informed, educated, and
communicative. They're more comfortable with expressing. And that's
mainly down to technology which facilitated cultural change.
It is natural for that to turn inward. This is the evolution of
critique. It took many years from Gutenberg to Vanity Fair. Literary
criticism only emerged once the medium itself was mature.
The same thing is happening in technology as Lewis Mumford predicted.
Technological critique. has come of age with AI.
Anybody so unsophisticated as to ignore that, like Apple, is doomed.
No one gives a shit how "thin" or "powerful" your gadget is. They care
what it means to them and their values. Apple, of all organisations,
should be mindful of that.
>No one gives a shit how "thin" or "powerful" your gadget is. They care what it means to them and their values. Apple, of all organisations, should be mindful of that.
Would you prefer a world wherein people aren't allowed to speak their mind instead?
Stop being so sensitive about people "being sensitive" and engage in the discussion instead of dismissing it.
All this complaining about "cancel culture" is just complaining that other people are using their freedom of speech in a way that you don't like. This is what freedom is speech means - disagreement. Stop whining about people disagreeing with you.
Either address the arguments they're making to further the conversation, or deal with it.
It's fine to voice opinions but why does Apple feel it needs to apologize?
No animals were harmed, no protected groups offended.
Apple could have just internally said, "well that one kinda didn't work well",pull the ad and move on.
Ok, but disagreeing is not what cancel culture is.
It’s attacking someone relentlessly, canceling their contracts, getting them fired, kicked out of institutions, debanked.
I’m not sure if you are pretending to not know that, or really just don’t know anything on the topic at all. But either way, it’s kind of showing your cards.
People complaining on Twitter don't have the power to fire/remove anybody. All they can do is spread allegations. If those allegations are true and bad enough that your employers or associates want to disassociate themselves with you, that is your (or your associates') fault, not the whistleblowers'.
Employers don't just fire you because a Twitter mob told them to. They do it because they learned about your bad behavior and no longer have faith in you.
If you don't like being fired:
- Don't do stuff your employers will find distasteful
- Vote for candidates to end at-will employment and give stronger employee rights
There you go again, complaining about my argument instead of refuting it.
It's not about liberals or conservatives, it's about ordinary people not liking things and spreading the word, ideally so people with the power to change things hear it. Conservatives cancel too, e.g. the Bud Light / Dylan Mulvaney boycott.
Things seem to escalate quite quickly now with no rationale. There seem to be no middle ground these days. My reference to cancel culture is that while it isn't there yet, Apple may have felt the need to apologize before it got there.
If you prefer to be a jerk, that's certainly an option, yes. Just don't be surprised or blame "cancel culture" when the people you belittle stop inviting you to parties.
No one's like crying out here or jumping off a bridge. People are just kinda ticked, or disappointed. There's no "cancel culture" happening here. Why such a reactionary interpretation of the ad's poor reception? o_O
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