Silicon Valley thinks we are in a moment of “anti-tech sentiment”
Loooool no we just finally woke up the masses to the San Francisco business model. Notice that nobody’s mad at Intel! Nobody’s complaining about how VLC killed a woman testing some machinery. Nobody thinks propaganda in Mint Linux tainted a presidential election. No buddy that’s an anti-corruption sentiment you’re catching. You have a corrupted business model.
@kaniini haha touché
you mean how the Intel CEO dumped his stock with insider info? The news cycle had made me forget already!
I don't even care about the insider trading, I care about the fact that I bought a computer with an Intel CPU in it and it turns out said CPU is highly defective
this means next time I buy a computer, I will probably use AMD, or perhaps, just use a non-x86 CPU entirely if I can actually get one
@kaniini You can go ARM, I have an ARM laptop myself. But I never use it because the Intel x86 one is still faster. AMD is great, I used to be a fanboy of them myself in college.
@Tanuki I'm about 50-50 on a "Chromebook" (using a real distro, of course) and while the battery life is awesome, the bugs and lack of hardware 3D are annoying (hardware video decode just "recently" started working so that was great)
@kaniini @Tanuki yeah, but you still bought Intel after the Pentium floating point bug. could that be because Intel actually handled that one correctly? - they announced it early, fixed it promptly and replaced everyone's dodgy Pentiums free of charge. rather than, you know, sitting on it for a decade and hoping nobody else would notice
@bob are you're referring to the PSP? I thought that was only added around 2013
@Tanuki kinda mad at Intel 😅 but at least it was normal malfeasance.
@Tanuki Nobody's mad at Intel? After the shit they just pulled? SRSLY?!
@raucao
No you’re right.
only if they forgot already like I did. My bad!
@Tanuki I love tech. Technology is awesome, technology is fun, technology is useful, technology is necessary. It's what we humans do. Like, literally, it's a textbook definition of technology - "how to do something".
What I hate is, people trying to spy on me, and control me. And that's not technology I'm hating, it's spying and control.
Or at least an anti-marketing sentiment?
Nobody's mad at zstd; it's the marketing department at these corp who's evil.
That must be why there are no tech people over here. lolol!
@Tanuki I dunno. Does the web browser that comes with Mint Linux have default bookmarks and what are they?
@Tanuki that's what happens when silicon valley gets the idea that it *is* all of tech :v
@Tanuki @bgcarlisle excuse me, animal rights organizations fought Winamp's cruelty to llamas for years, and arguably were instrumental in the application's decline
@Tanuki THANK YOU!
Nobody's mad at tech; we're mad at rich white techbros fuckin it up for everyone else.
@Tanuki You really nailed it. I spent about five minutes last night thinking of everything wrong with Stamos' response and couldn't come up with a summary: thank you for this.
@Tanuki Actually, I have a few issues with intel. Like gaping bugs and their remote management engine.
The rest of the list gets a skate though :-)
@Tanuki But we should be mad at Intel for their firmware backdoors right on the motherboard.
Management Engine. Just say no.
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@Tanuki people are very mad at Intel right now, though
@asonix yes they are, I should've picked my good guy tech examples more carefully.
@Tanuki Plenty of people are mad at Intel and for good reason.
Y'know, like Intel ME, which is basically a hardware backdoor in every modern Intel CPU.
@Tanuki people are definitely mad at Intel, and with good reason. Their hubris caused a shitstorm of security blunders and their denials and lack of transparency are making it worse.
@Tanuki Source on the VLC claim?
@exo that was a satirical example of what didn’t happen and a reference to what Uber did in Arizona
@Tanuki Ahh, I'm just out of the loop on that stuff. Uber is trash, glad they're not where I live.
@Tanuki can I order some anti-tech sentiment pls :p
@Tanuki As a Silicon Valley native I object to your calling us San Francisco. SF isn't even part of Silicon Valley, and even if it were the largest city in Silicon Valley is San Jose. Facebook also isn't in Silicon Valley; it's in Menlo Park. I don't think anything north of Palo Alto counts.
In fact, if they adopt ActivityPub, they will be able to have an useful api after almost eight years (!)
But someone skilled on coding must do the api migration and purpose that, or d* devs would say the same I wrote because they are saying this for years.
@seanl @Tanuki @kaniini HN already has a pretty good alternative in the form of Lobsters <https://lobste.rs> - if you need an invite, hit me up over DM
@seanl points taken, but is downtown different? I thought that’s just where the premium office space is.
@Tanuki The South Bay has different politics because the SF tech scene is largely populated by young single (and thus idealistic and naive) folks. People usually leave SF and move south when they start families because they want a yard and maybe even to own their house.
Companies in Silicon Valley proper can certainly hire young single people but they will often end up commuting to SF and then they'll eventually leave to go to an SF company after they get tired of the commute.
@Tanuki wait what? VLC killed a woman HOW?
@emmeci that was my satirical example of what did not happen
@Tanuki Well I wouldnt say nobody is mad against Intel... ;)
But then it is for a completely different reason
@Tanuki
Wait what? Do you have sources?
@Trucy a lot of people are misreading my toot but I meant that these things that did happen were not done by these other orgs
Like we are not mad at tech
@bgcarlisle @Tanuki
> Notice that nobody’s mad at Intel!
* Intel hid a whole MINIX operating system in its chips without telling us.
* and ring -3 is aBig Deal https://stallman.org/intel.html
* mandatory backdoors as per california law since 2014
That's better than *some* companies...but they are reasons to be mad at intel.
actually, I am plenty mad at Intel for selling me a defective CPU which has required up to 50% decrease in system performance to mitigate