He’s absolutely not going to hire the legal and engineering team required to do this too lol
the website that breaks, has no moderation, has full versions of pirated movies, and constantly shows me nazis should also control my money
Comrade Elon trying to make the Nazis who complain about Jewish bankers into bankers themselves
One thing I find very strange about the actually existing information age is that most “tech” doesn’t even solve a problem, or improve upon an existing system. It’s all just selling solutions to problems you don’t have or problems the seller created in order to sell you the solution. Most “tech” companies haven’t really made any improvements to anything they own in a long time. It think the it’s odd/frustrating that improvement to existing solutions is far less “valuable” than new “features”.
It’s also interesting to me that “tech” companies aren’t even really technology companies anymore. “Innovation” is just a buzzword rather than actual goal/objective. They want to just make new “things” rather than actually improving any current things
The modern age is weird and I don’t like it.
That’s the problem with humans having limited needs while the market needs unlimited growth. The only answer after a certain point is inventing demand.
for example computer chips are now cheap enough to put inside household appliances it just turns out that almost no one needs or wants that
we could use this to create technology to assist the disabled and elderly caring for themselves but that’s not a big enough market so stupid bullshit it is
I would have bought so much IoT stuff if they were designed to use open standards and be part of an isolated home network. They could have had a sizable if niche prosumer market, but these companies wanna go public or get acquired, so that’s not enough.
we could use this to create technology to assist the disabled and elderly caring for themselves but that’s not a big enough market so stupid bullshit it is
It’s really frustrating that we have the know-how and resources to make technologies for making all sorts of people’s lives safer/easier/better but because it’s not “profitable” we don’t. It’s really maddening to me that we have all the assets and knowledge but not the will due to “THE MARKET©®™” deems it to be unprofitable.
And specifically, inventing demand by removing alternatives. Like with IoT devices. They invent demand by removing alternative designs, raise the price because it’s premium, then use those devices to spy on your and sell data to create a sort of rent based model where you pay with your privacy.
Alternatively they just refuse to even sell you the IoT device and force you to rent it from them.
IoT stuff is so frustrating, because the useful aspects are overwhelmed by the need to make it profitable. I DIY’d an environment tracking setup totally local on my network to keep track of things like temp/humidity because I’ve got some sensitive acoustic instruments and I need to know when they need to go in their case/get a wet sponge/break out the dehumidifier. Now I have a historical graph of temp/humidity/air quality cycles in my apartment.
I bought a “IoT” power strip because I wanted individually addressable outlets for things like lamps and monitors and centralize the interface but fuckin TPlink took away the python API access and requires an account and so it sits in its box until I can possibly reverse engineer it enough to either write my own firmware or just hotwire the relays for my own purposes.
Great point man! I didn’t even think of it to that sort of scale/perspective.
When Twitter came out, there were blogs. Everyone could write articles on their blog, ans RSS allowed everyone to follow anyone.
Then a new company said : “We will make blogs, but limited to 127 characters”
That was so stupid. I bet with a friend that it will never be a thing. I lost.
time for my annual “reassuring investors that everything will be ready by the end of next year” tour
must suck to be on an H1B visa and work for that piece of shit.
i would seriously think about [redacted] and leaving the US if it looked like i’d get caught
