Sending someone out to test it is what costs the money. There aren’t “Flock Techs” that get a salary to fix these things, they just hire contractors to do installs and move on.

Every minute it’s down is a dollar out of Flock’s pocket because it’s not transmitting anything useful and every contractor hired to diagnose the issue is another dollar out of the pocket of the people that contracted with Flock.

Seems like a reasonably sound strategy outside of the safety concern imo.

They don’t use the same kind :(

Gonna tell my kids this app is Apollo and pour one out for those that didn’t make it.

IMO people will come around. Not quickly and not without a bunch of good things about the internet dying off… but eventually an equilibrium will be reached.

It got monetized. Read up on a Google published white paper “Attention is all you Need” from 2017 and you’ll understand how it all went to shit so quickly.

The Holocaust. Khmer Rouge. The Rape of Nanjing. Global Warming.

See? Words are easy.

It isn’t that people don’t care enough, it’s that they only have so much to go around and there is no cause so important that you get to dictate someone else’s state of mind 24/7 just because you say tragic words. Keep the fire burning but don’t think you get to sneer at others just because they’re burned out at the moment.

Switching operating system is cheaper…

Aw :(

So do libertarians, they just don’t have enough trust to see it in others without some sort of unimpeachable token system to recognize as “proof” of their character.

“Give me 25ft, says the unjust man. You take a step back, he takes a step forward. Give me 25ft, says the unjust man.”

• adapted slightly

Don’t know why you’re being piled on. I’ve been on Reddit since the bad old days and I’ve only been temp banned (from certain subs at that) once, maybe twice lol. New accounts every yearish, fought about politics, called people names I probably shouldn’t have… I dunno what people are doing to catch all these bans.

It’s a corporate hellscape nowadays but there have always been rules about decorum.

I feel like it’s turning into a genuine schism in our society. The “it’s fine, I just deal with it”s and the “I swear to fucking god I’ll burn it all down before I see/hear a single goddamn ad”s.

The Time Machine needs to be remade with this in mind.

These are the kind of posts that I like to see! I appreciate the time and effort that went into this, hopefully I can contribute something similar soon!

IDK what exactly you’re not understanding but I suspect it’s the difference between a gift and a purchase. The US will not be purchasing this 50% stake in OpenAI with additional money. It will be free. It was technically paid for with all the (not public) IP they used to create these models in the first place.

When you get something in return for nothing, that something is always a positive value even if it’s just a fraction of what it started as.

I’m with you, just pointing out the barriers.

There’s no free bandwidth just sitting around and waiting to be exploited, Internet 2.0 will have to be discreet or expensive.

There is no “investing”, they stole the IP so they owe the People a 50% stake. If the whole company is only worth $100 in a year then the American people will get to split the last $50 amongst ourselves, not be on the hook for bailing out yet another failure.

lol Bernie was talking about 50% and their counter is apparently 5%. What’s say we meet in the middle with… oh, 55%? (math by ChatGPT)

Then you’re just going to have the FCC regulating the high-throughput bandwidths until you’re left with the unregulated ones for consumers… like LoRa… and Meshtastic lol.

Going to be hard since the hardware sitting between all those wires cost money to run and… that’s pretty much what ISPs get paid do. They’re assholes who shouldn’t have a say in what goes through those connections but their job isn’t redundant, someone has to do it to maintain those connections.

Meshtastic? LoRa?

Or do you mean something like VPN tunneling?