This looks like an embarrassing mistake. If someone were to try to “tank” Twitter, it wouldn’t really make sense to do this on purpose.

The political ideas you can find on Reddit are much more diverse. There is usually at least some pushback against some of the most deranged statements.

my comment looks stupid because OP made a (sensible) edit to their question. Before the edit, OP was asking how to rotate the lock screen without using the word “lock screen”

fwiw, that screen is called “lock screen”

Pretty much the hardware version of && false

it happened again with the Intuitive Machines lander that landed on the moon last week

The article just says that the account is suspended, there is no official statement from Twitter an no indication that they suspended the account on purpose. The most likely reason is that the account was mass reported by trolls and got suspended automatically.

I like using AntennaPod for podcasts and Spotify for music.

Nobody knows if and when programming will be automated in a meaningful way. But once we have the tech to do it, we can automate pretty much all work. So I think this will not be a problem for programmers until it’s a problem for everyone.

I think it’s reasonable to not short stocks. I just find it a bit weird to see people confidently proclaim that a company is overvalued, but than not shorting the stock, which would be the rational thing to do.

It’s hard to tell how much a platform is worth, arguably the value of Twitter was 44B, since someone was willing to pay that.

The good news is, if you’re really certain that Reddit is overvalued, you’ll soon be able to short it and get rich if you end up being right!

I don’t think the number of bots matters much, there are much more real people on Twitter than on Mastodon. It’s not an issue for Twitter because they already are the platform where everyone else is. I’m optimistic about Mastodon, it already has the better UX and the better business model and I think it will slowly attract more users over time and eventually reach the relevance that Twitter had at its peak.

When the Apple car is released, the EU will invent 350 kW DC fast charging via USB-C 🙏

The difficult thing is gaining users, not writing the code.

I’ve been on Mastodon for over a year and I never experienced anything that could be classified as a technical glitch. From a tech / UI perspective it feels very polished to me.

I guess the only exception would be that old posts are sometimes missing on profiles from different servers.

USB A doesn’t have Power Delivery, the highest it can do is 15W for USB 3.2 and 4.5W for USB 3.1 and older.

But these dongles exist, I bought some and they work for charging (I haven’t tried to use them for data)

Have you tried Gadgetbridge? It replaces the Pebble app completely. I’m on Android 13 and it works really well (but requires a bit of tinkering to set up). Also, if it broke going from 13 to 14, I’d be interested to know what went wrong. I’m still using my Pebble every day.

It doesn’t make sense for Lemmy (or Mastodon) to send your IP to other instances. Without that IP, all they have is your username. They can’t really track you based on just the username.

What a wild conspiracy theory.

Legally, they can’t collect and process any of the data unless you accepted a contract with them. Just by sending an upvote or a comment to their instance, you don’t agree to any of this.

And if they choose to ignore the law and just do it anyway, they still can’t, because all they have is the data that your instance sends them. They don’t have your geo-location, device Id, etc.

Interesting. It seems that Lemmy can see Mastodon users and send private messages to them. And I believe Mastodon users can create Lemmy posts, so potentially Threads users could do that too once Meta enables two-way communication.