How is it fundamentally flawed?

It’s a company with no morals, but the product isn’t stupid, and neither is the way the company operates or the people who run it.

Don’t underestimate your adversary.

How are smart glasses evil?

No, he said that when the audio command came over the speakers, it triggered the smart glasses of everyone in the auditorium.

Why?

1. Lack of Feature Parity

2. Stickiness of library transfer

3. Stickiness of social network effects

4. It’s still better ethically than Apple Music or YouTube Music, which behave anti-competitively

1: I’ve tried out Quobuz, it’s pretty good, but it does not have the Jam / Group Session feature which me and my friends use constantly while gaming remotely. It also does not have an Xbox app which I use while playing games. I find Spotify’s recommendations somewhat underwhelming, but Quobuz has a noticeably worse recommendation engine, at least for my genres and tastes. Those are the features that lack parity that matter to me, but for some others, it’s things like amplifiers having built-in Spotify, or there being a Roku or Playstation app or something.

2: Quobuz uses a third party service to automatically transfer your library, which worked pretty well, but did require jumping through a bunch of hoops and subscribing to a trial subscription that I then had to cancel. It also did not find matches for some songs. Could I make it work if I had enough reason to switch? Yeah, probably, but the lack of feature parity (/roadmap that includes them) is enough to dissuade me from really trying.

3: In addition to friends on Spotify all using Jams, there’s also an inherent niceness to just being able to text people Spotify links, especially since there’s no cross platform linking service that would otherwise make sharing music easy.

4: Supporting Spotify may not be great, but its still better than supporting trillion dollar anti-competitive corporations like Apple and Google.

I assume this suggestion will get me torched for reasons I don’t understand, but why not a multi-paradigm language like JavaScript/Typescript, or C#?

It directly led to a 12 year old watching his father shoot a cop in the head and then get shot multiple times himself and bleed out.

He was bringing a 12 year old with him to commit armed felonies…

I hope his supporters face lengthy ass prison sentences. This child just watched his father get shot to death because of them.

It seems a reasonable guess that a person whose hobby is building custom mechanical keyboards probably does keep it clean. I figured people using an encrypted messaging system with backups enabled would probably go to the trouble of ensuring those backups didn’t live in one place.

The point is that encrypted messaging is not a hobby for anyone but Moxie Marlinspike. It’s just a tool that people use for communication. WhatsApp and iMessage are both encrypted and have relatively seamless backup solutions and do not require any extra thought or effort.

Are people not copying their backup off their device periodically?

Do you change your air filter, clean your keyboard, floss your teeth, derust your tools, organize your files, respond to all your messages, keep on top of available tax breaks and deals, dust under your bed etc?

No one does every random maintenance task as often as they should meaning that everyone is letting some slip occasionally which means you should expect that no, not everyone is periodically backing up and transferring their DMs to a different device.

The point of a separate platform is that nobody is going to enforce these rules globally, so it would have to be a Nepal only branch of the site.

Multiple social media networks did comply.

It’s mind boggling that half the threads are bitching about Zuckerberg wasting billions, and everyone in here is whining that it would be too expensive for Facebook to pay someone in Nepal to be their representative.

And yes, do read Chapter 12 and notice that literally only a single regulation in there is remotely problematic, and it’s the broad national interest one. Literally all the rest are just ‘respect user privacy’, and ‘respond to court orders’, and the like.

And social media companies are still destroying the planet and avoiding regulation.

The document is right here, chapter 2 is like a page of bullet points:

https://www.law-democracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nepal.Social-Media-Bill_2025_Eng.pdf

All it requires is that they establish a single legal representative in the country. Nothing about spinning off separate companies.

Brazil requires the same. It is not a crazy regulation to require a company operating in your country to have a legal representative there.

Honestly don’t understand the protests. The government should ban social media sites that don’t comply with basic safety regulations.

Of course, regardless of the original cause, now that the government has executed 14 protesters, that will be the cause.

Honestly, pretty motivating if you think about it.

I mean, whenever you’re sitting there at work, thinking that your job is stupid and pointless, just remember that there are people out there trying to use the American court system to get fair and sensible rulings. Your job will never be remotely as pointless as theirs.

I don’t fault researchers for publishing novel research that might not go anywhere. I explicitly understand the scientific value in doing so.

I do not think it’s valuable to breathlessly regurgitate those claims to the broader pop-sci public though. A) It’s boring to read the same overhyped battery press release every single week. And B) it shakes people’s faith in science, in the same way that people’s faith in medicine has been shaken by bad reporting on every study that says X could give you cancer or make you live longer.

Not any more waste of time than reading 90% of other tech news (or any news in general). It’s basically entertainment, not education.

I agree, but if I want to read 90% filler I can just pick a tech news site and read everything.

I don’t expect them to come to market faster than that, I expect people to not believe and post headlines about a battery technology revolutionizing things when it’s early stage research and most likely will not.

If you spent your time reading about every novel research battery since the dawn of Li Ion and today, all you’ll have succeeded in is wasting a lot of time.

Yes, progress in the manufacturing and refining of Lithium Ion batteries.

This is not that. This is a research lab trying a new idea that will go nowhere and then issuing a press release that talks about the positives and ignores the showstopping negatives.