Yoruio

@Yoruio@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, publically traded companies have a legal obligation to make as much money for their shareholders as legally possible (See Ford getting sued by shareholders after giving workers raises). It would be borderline illegal for a company to adjust their algorithm in a way that makes them less competitive.

  This needs to be regulated by government, not the companies themselves. Thay would mean that the companies would be forced to all change their algorithms at the same time, and not impact their competitiveness.

  So the government going after tiktok is a good first step, IF it does the same thing to Facebook / instagram / YouTube / snapchat. But I’m betting it won’t be because those companies spend an absurd amount of money on lobbying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is just how capitalism works - you have to appeal to your audience more than your competition, and guess which kind of content teenagers want to watch more. Hell, even adults want fun content as opposed to educational content.

  any platform that pushes educational content in North America would just not get any customers and go bankrupt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The tab count. It only happens with 9.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my chrome even sometimes gives me a winky face “;)”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you had a Samsung fridge, and you willingly put a bomb in the fridge, would you blame Samsung when your fridge explodes?

  Microsoft gives you the freedom to install software that runs with the same level of privilege as the kernel itself. You’re the one that chose to install defective software, and then give it kernel level permissions. You put a bomb in your computer and now you’re blaming Microsoft after the bomb exploded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Canada at least, I was taught in elementary school to capitalize all important words (i.e. other than and, or, at, in, etc.) in a title. Is it taught differently in other places?