This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Says the guy that won't allow Meta Quest developers the same level of access to their own hardware. Example: How would someone develop a 3rd party controller for the Quest VR headsets? You can't. They haven't exposed that API (or the cameras fully!).
They don't even let you set the clock on your Quest headset! Need to change timezones? Factory Reset
M-series chip might be the biggest leap in newer time in computers. I think that's pretty well made by Apple at least.
What did Meta innovate? AI profiles?
They’ve made great innovations in creating right wing echo chambers.
Not even Twitter can keep up
I mean, they are a close second. Meta is maintaining a comfortable lead, but give Twitter a few more Bluesky hemorrhage cycles.
Considering the latest changes at Meta, it seems their latest innovation is to transform social media into antisocial media.
antisocial media.
always_has_been.meme
Man idk, Facebook in 2010 was log on, see what friends and family posted, laugh and comment, send people stuff in games...
Facebook since 2016 and especially 2020 has been "log on, don't look at any posts, go to marketplace to post whatever you're selling aaaand log out"
The only place Meta innovates is in data-mining.
Avatar…legs!! 😆
Just because meta sucks doesn't let apple off the hook for anticompetitive behavior
Zuck is fine with anticompetitive actions, he just thinks you need to InOvAtE to earn the right.
“Competition is for losers” lecture by Peter Thiel at Stanford lays out very clearly that none of these mfers actually wants competition once they dominate an industry.
everyone likes to point at 1984 and the dystopian future but I disagree. I'm of the opinion that the message of that story is more directed to the people who conformed and end up at the bottom of the food chain, locked in a hell of their own choices.
The real inspiration for 1984 is Jack London's The Iron Heel
it's so absolutely on point about our lives right now under capitalism and these ultra rich assholes.
Published in 1908 and never more accurate about the world today than anything I have ever read.
I am so down to read that. Thx for the book rec
Added to my Libby queue - I love our public library system
no love for apple but what has meta done that was good let alone great in ever
and why did he throw away mainstream appeal just so he could go on a losers talk show only nazis listen to?
Because he wants to appeal to republicans in a time when they control all the levers of the federal government. He’s desperate not to be in their crosshairs and is trying to offer up an alternative is my read.
what has meta done that was good
Facebook Portal TV. What a great device: "call mom" and it calls on her TV where she can see whom it is instead of her tiny phone screen. The cam was good, it panned and zoomed to focus on the speaker really well, and the sound was great. It's a small unit that also does zoom and prime and Netflix and Plex. The M assistant is good, but it basically leverages a built-in Alexa for external control.
Then Cambridge analytica. Every new review is like "this is an amazing device, but don't get it because fuck Facebook."
Now it's been orphaned: voice control is busted. No apps updated or installed. But if you had the apps installed they still work. TV calling still works if my mom can find and figure the remote.
And there's been no replacement tech, which makes this unit that much better than everything else since it's peerless.
There ya go. We bought 1 and then 3 more for family just before COVID.
We got one of these for my grandmother and it was the only thing she could figure out how to use. Cell phones were too complicated but she could just tap on a picture of someone and call them and that was simple enough. Downside is she was calling all hours of the day and night LOL.
Why are the capitalists so complainy?
"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps 😤, facts don't care about your feelings 😤, Apple is mean make them stop it 😭"
Oooo who has more money to throw at chancellor trump to make sure their business becomes the Brawndo of the new age???
Meta hasn't invented anything ever and their only attempt failed miserably. All of their successful products are bought from competitors.
I hate apple like the next Linux evangelist, but meta is just as bad.
Zuck invented the feed.
Who cares?
I thought it was a good read about the current state of technology, so I posted it in a technology community.
Fuck me, right?
The current state of technology is some jerkwad yammering with another jagoff? No, that's not the state of technology.
Sadly, it is.
I mean, he's the wrong guy to call this out, and he and Meta are a cancer on society, but he's still not wrong. It is bullshit. And it's worth calling out in front of millions of people.
Have they ever "invented anything great"?
I guess original iPod was an unexpected shot in the right direction. And PPC Macs were fine, I guess. That opinion is based solely on the appearances and the fact that PPC good, Intel bad, Motorola fossil.
Apple? The iPhone was kind of a big deal. It wasn’t completely original, but nothing ever is. It made the smartphone worthwhile for the average consumer in a way that Palm and BlackBerry and others simply didn’t, and directly led to the mobile ecosystem we have now.
Obviously there were plenty of players in the space but Apple had right combination of features and potential market due to the popularity of the iPod.
Edit: Oh, also the M-series processor. That’s pretty great.
The iPhone was kind of a big deal. It wasn’t completely original, but nothing ever is. It made the smartphone worthwhile for the average consumer in a way that Palm and BlackBerry and others simply didn’t, and directly led to the mobile ecosystem we have now.
That's more terrible than great.
Edit: Oh, also the M-series processor. That’s pretty great.
ARM is its own thing.
That’s more terrible than great.
They didn’t call Alexander the Great that because he was a good dude. “Great” doesn’t inherently mean beneficial. The iPhone changed the world. As did Apple stealing their concept for a GUI and cursor from PARC and running with it.
ARM is its own thing.
Sure, but not every ARM processor is the M-series. The M-series proving the capacity of running a desktop OS on ARM in a meaningful way was important.
OK, I agree that it changed the world. But Nokia getting sabotaged played a role.
I'm still not sure how much different modern processor-building is between ISA's beyond the decoder and legacy limitations, which are harder on Intel architecture than on ARM.
I suppose M-things are cool, so a milestone, and a welcome one, but, apart from Hackintosh builders, it doesn't raise the demand for ARM machines a lot. The demand for Apple machines on ARM - yes, since they've gotten a new technical cool factor, which hasn't happened for some time before that transition.
They sometimes do good things which become fashion, and they do bad things which become fashion (I still hate widescreens on personal computers ; you either get distracted by what's above and below the screen, or get anxious from the sides being in peripheral vision zone ; anyway, we still scroll vertically).
