the screen resolution was also that of the first gen ipad. they've since renamed the project to PixelSense, presumably because you can sense each pixel

this video was put on youtube one month before the iphone came out

yes actually, i made a version of it my final year in college using infrared laser pointers and a webcam for a tech expo the department i had a job at was holding

i had the impression this was going to be a consumer public thing. ultimately all the problems they show in the video were solved by just making better phones, so this didn't have a leg to stand on.

clarification: i meant it would be purchased by businesses and used largely by members of the public, not actually purchased by consumers

i've never seen this before. they boast about this sort of shit to the media as if it matters to consumers but really theyre just selling this to the us military for like 10000% markup right??

yes

I think reactionary internet culture is a symptom of a larger cultural illness and trying to point to a specific law or regulation as a fix for internet psychos is doomed to fail

Also what's to stop these companies from moving their operations to some other far right ruled nation? Moreover, who in the american government is going to be the one that tries to regulate social media? How much of the Democratic party's money comes from big tech donations?

help now i can't stop making paperclips

Ehhh, white supremacists were some of the earliest adopters of the internet. The problems with Parler, Gab, etc. aren't new. I don't think removing Section 230 will help anyone.

This person is arguing we should get rid of automated moderation is stone-cold stupid. There's more evils to be moderated than just nazis. Why should we subject humans to child pornography when we have automated tools that can identify a broad class of child pornography? And what's to stop the "good-faith human moderators" from being bad? Employing automated moderation is a necessary step of good-faith measures.

This person acknowledges that ISPs, etc. should still be seen as service providers, but the reality is that Twitter, etc. are practically utilities for common people nowadays. The common citizen doesn't have the ability to call a press conference or send mass mailings on a whim (like Trump does).

I think the root of this evil lies in the engagement and marketing algorithms that big sites use. It's like the Paperclip game about an AI that optimizes paperclip production (at the cost of everything else) https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

I almost feel like I'm missing some big parts of the argument here

yeah definitely! I think something like that would ultimately be way too physical for me... but then teaching is honestly too physical for me because you're supposed to stand up when you're talking to the class and I can't stand up all day :/

i agree. the problem is in our current system a job like that is rough on your body and you don't get the support you need to manage the damage as you age because it's considered less skilled and well at least in the us the medical system is just fucked in general

Also most of the bedrock technology that everything is based off was developed by NASA, the US Military, CERN, universities and the Soviet Union, not free market competition.

god being a plumber or electrician sounds amazing tbh, you get to work with your hands, fixing stuff for people, and yet I could definitely turn it all off when I get home

if capitalism is efficient then how come google starts and then kills 800 products a year? checkmate capitalism.

jstpst will have stories when i'm dead

It is seriously bonkers to me that people see advances in technology due to competition, clap their hands and go "That's the power of capitalism :)" and their thinking turns off right there and doesn't go any further.

Btw when will jstpst have stories? We need to compete

the amount of terrible code i've shipped that's still running on servers years later really haunts me. and you're exactly right, when i log off at the end of the day the absolute last thing i want to do is look at my text editor for even one more minute. i've heard it said that the sign of being a professional is that you don't enjoy it anymore. i feel like the main thing keeping me in software is that i don't want to suck all the joy out of anything else i like to do, the way a career in software has sucked all the joy out of programming

tfw alienated by capitalism

I wish I hadn't been pushed into coding for a living, since I would love to code outside of work but seriously cannot after a workday. I ought to be a plumber or hvac technician, but it feels hard to change over at this point. Plus that changeover would reduce my allocated resources by half.

I like the nest that I work in - I'm the sole developer for a system that tracks a company's data. When I'm pressured to do something quickly it's because the whole company is trying to change what it's doing quickly, which is okay.

But it does suck out a lot of my technology passion.

holy shit apparently they also make a "pear of agony" type device

hahaha fuck

not that I would get into this situation for multiple reasons but if I did somehow manage it I would simply accept my new life rather than take the angle grinder approach.

"smart" lock designers don't consider that they are designing locks, they design consumer tech products that happen to lock. this is evidenced by the fact that many smart padlocks can be disassembled while locked.

how could you design something like this without a physical unlock jesus christ

researchers said it may require the intervention of a heavy-duty bolt cutter or an angle grinder to free the user

wwwaaaaaaaaa

okay so that device needs a technological-equivalent safe word.