[-] Breve@pawb.social 21 points 1 week ago

This is always the problem: Monopolies are popular with consumers because their centralization makes everything easy. The trappings of convenience.

Buy stuff directly from stores. Every time I've looked, the price elsewhere often exactly matches what Amazon charges because their pricing algorithms are constantly price matching anyhow.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

I just run Docker and my router maps ports to it. Container isolation and a basic firewall is more than enough for me.

Like are we talking what's good enough security for hosting an anime waifu tier list blog or good enough security for a billion dollar corporation?

[-] Breve@pawb.social 19 points 3 weeks ago

These days, my kids have no concept of a Christmas concert. If we are lucky, the school will put on a 30-minute “family sharing music show” on a Tuesday morning.

Maybe that has to do with schools being overburdened with larger class sizes, fewer staff, and tighter budgets due to governments cutting funding to the bone.

Maybe the article writer should to go volunteer for the school to save Christmas instead of crying about it and blaming everyone else.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 18 points 3 weeks ago

In the interview, Trump defended tariffs generally, saying that tariffs are “going to make us rich.”

Well he's not lying, except by "us" he means his billionaire friends and not the American people.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 17 points 1 month ago

That would require that crowd to have a basic understanding of logic and reality, which they don't. The GOP can literally do no wrong in their eyes because they will have some conspiracy to blame the consequences on instead.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's the eternal cycle:

  • Small platform has quality experience because most users are genuine and engaged, and user base is too small to be "worth it" for corporations and trolls
  • Platform grows slowly until it reaches tipping point of popularity and network effect
  • The platform has explosive growth, drawing interest of corporations and trolls
  • Corporations enshittify while trolls crank out misinformation and rage bait
  • Users reach tipping point and leave large platform to smaller platforms that don't have corporate interests and trolls
  • Repeat due to network effect
[-] Breve@pawb.social 20 points 2 months ago

I understand the actual market reasons that buybacks and layoffs raise a stock price, but it's always been counter-intuitive to me that shrinking the workforce that actually produces the capital and divesting money that could have been used to grow the company would be seen as positive indicators to investors.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I watched the speech live. I actually agree with a lot of what he said, but the dead silence in the crowd when he wasn't kissing Trump's ass was all I needed to hear. That speech wasn't trying to convince Republicans to revolt against their leader, it was trying to soften moderates to vote for a dictator who will crush them at the first chance.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 19 points 7 months ago

The reason is that Elon Musk got caught liking questionable content through the likes page.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 21 points 10 months ago

I bet their version of dynamic pricing is less "the price of a burger changes from 2pm to 6pm based on demand" and more "we let the AI slowly adjust prices across different regions over days and weeks to learn the point that extracts the maximum profit in each market".

[-] Breve@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

Right, unless your business is a monopoly that maintains dominance because it can run at a loss since the parent company just shovels money into it that they earned in completely different markets.

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