he doesn’t want experts, he wants people who will be subservient to him. expertise would get in the way of that, because experts would likely understand that he has no idea what he’s talking about, and not respect his dictates. see: everyone who knew how things worked at twitter.
Speaking of twitter, things were looking pretty grim right after the takeover, with users and advertisers dropping left and right and it seemed like its days are numbered. What happened? It looks like it's still chugging along.
To this day, it remains rate-limited for people who don't have an account. Also, that fact that you (and most people) keep calling it "Twitter" is proof that the name change was an absolutely horrible idea.
Musk shrank Twitter until its load (technical and financial) was small enough to be carried by the resources it had available. Revenue is way down but so is traffic, staff, and technical expenses. There’s still a website and app that loads, but it’s not what Musk bought.
Basically, Twitter is sustainable now because so much of its user base migrated away.
I have been unable to locate anything even remotely reliable other than the AMARS[0] report that shows that between August 2023 (two months before Musk) and July 2024 the EU user base dropped from 111M to 106M. That hardly seems like load shedding to reach sustainability.
I would like to see global and up to date data, but it does not seem to exist in public.
It is possible, but not probable. The M.O. of the entire administration has been to replace expertise with loyalty. No reason to believe this group is any different. This was also the case in 2017.
It's not like this is new behavior from him. He wants people who agree with him and will do what he asks. He doesn't want pushback, and he definitely doesn't want to be told he's wrong.
'authenticity' in the sense of content made by normal people without any strong goals other than 'some other people might like that' (and for some, maybe eventually getting some income from monetization) rather than highly produced content with the goal of reaching the largest possible audience and extracting the largest possible amount of money from that, which is what reels feels like. if you want to see that type of 'more authentic' content, tiktok's approach to populating your feed will be much more responsive to that than instagram's. there also seem to be a lot more people creating content on tiktok aimed at that level.
modular synthesis isn't named 'modular' in reference to 'modulation', it's in reference to synth 'modules', which are units of functionality from which you can build a synthesizer. for example with an oscillator module, a couple of envelope modules, a gain module and a filter module you can build a typical monophonic subtractive synthesizer.
the ‘search box’ is not good at finding stations so i can check when the next train is coming. i typed in ‘34th st’ and it returned a bunch of addresses, none of which are in manhattan. this is probably because you require me to type ‘34 st’ exactly (no ‘th’) instead. if you can’t fuzzy match this, this search box is just unusable.
i also tried looking at ‘nearby stations’ and while standing on the 34th st A platform it didn’t list the 34th st subway station at all, just a bunch of bus stops.
please let me just look at a station list instead.
I see a lot of people asking why someone would distribute an Electron-wrapped version of a program you could run natively, and I see it as an extension of the the same reason why I ported these emulators to the browser in the first place: accessibility. While you can install BasiliskII natively, it's a bit of a pain, especially if you are not super technical. If you find a binary floating around online it may not work for your OS version. Wrapping it in Electron is one way to ameliorate the OS compatibility issue; Chromium has been battle-tested across many OS versions. Ideally BasiliskII would have a better OS compatibility story (as well as being more portably distributable with data files) but, like many open source projects, it doesn't have a lot of maintainer-time to make this happen.
Maybe one day more things will have been written in modern languages that treat cross-platform builds as a first-class concern (Rust, Go, etc.), and this kind of "boxing" won't be as necessary. Until then, I think your approach is very sensible for getting something fun into as many people's hands as possible :)
