Yeah, I just checked. I can see my own dislikes. They hide the number directly, but I can see how many likes I have and the ratio of likes to unlikes.

Also, the creators that I follow didn’t like having the dislikes removed. Even if they did, I can make my own judgement calls. I’m sure the creators who are more dependent on sponsorships like not having their embarrassments visible. I’m sure IH doesn’t mind that stuff not being visible for “his” hole video.

Except that the uploader can still see the downvote count. It was just removed so that corporations wouldn’t be embarrassed when they put out an unpopular trailer or product.

There’s a long list of historic examples of people who actual are what the techbros fantasy about being. I was limiting myself to living examples of people who were just interested in the tech. Carmack’s comments when he left facebook was fun to see. I always thought he was better then that company.

When Google removed the dislikes from youtube videos, one of the lies they told was it was for the users(or uploader’s) mental health.

A few things the cynics are missing.

1. The engineers who are designing this car don’t have the political power to push for better mass transit.
2. Even in ideal circumstances, there will still be a need for personal transport vehicles and infrastructure. Small cars will still be needed.
3. Aptera has 31 employees as of 2023. If they’re working overtime, it’s because they’re letting the company do it. Maintaining good moral is way more important in small companies.

Well, Stark is actually a fictional character in a genre that too often uses the term “smartest X alive” when that’s not how intelligence works at all. Also, like others have said, Howard Hughes is more likely the inspiration for Stark. That being said, the closest irl “tech savant” I can think of is John Carmack.

When he wrote code at PayPal, people kept having to go back and fix it. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

He looked pretty weird in his sweet baby rays video and he was the one putting that out.

That’s a lot of words to describe managing.

But it is better for people not to be so focused on numbers like removing number of likes on Instagram.

Is my mental health really something I want Google managing?

Apparently Logitech does have this out now, so I wonder if they patented the “concept” and it will be another 20 years before anyone can do it. Assuming that someone else didn’t already do it 20 years ago and that patented already ran out.

They should have just released a mouse pad that can charge the mouse wirelessly then.

Roster Teeth was in charge of their own demise.

If an Australian company has a shop or office in the US, what happens in that shop is beholden to US law. If a Japanese owned company commits US crimes while in the US, they are committing crimes.

MySpace -> acquired by News Corporation -> insta death

Also, Twitter was always crap.

Learn to torrent and use nyaa.

God, I wish they brought Woz back with Jobs. He was always more about the educational and tinkering stuff. Imagine if he pushed for a Linux underpinning and people could develop for both platforms without any issue.

There was a recent change in Twitter’s posting policies. They now have decided that any art posted to twitter, twitter owns. There is an on going exodus of artists who decided on bluesky as their new homes. There might be algo bias going on from the influx.

I was hoping to get a used one in a few years to use on the farm. The range and load capacity would be well within most errands. I’m now eyeing an Edison Motor’s kit for an old square body.

I’m still pissed the EVs were discontinued.