• 10 Posts
  • 26 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 11th, 2023
  • Little8Lost@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.ml•Tesla owners are expressing buyer’s remorse - if not by selling their Teslas, then at least with an apologetic bumper sticker.
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    11 months ago

    From what i know tesla was first really profitable from cars (not investors) in 2020 and elon gave himself a bonus with like 50x value from all the profits (my source is the youtuber thunderf00t).
    And if i heard it correctly tesla cars are overpriced compared to the competitors and none is on place one when it comes to the stats.

    But to simply buy a tesla is as easy as simply buying the most advertised bs like nestle products.

    And to the spaceX thing: they get their money mostly from having launch platforms and overpricing it there, the malket there only could be dominated because of investor money. (no source)
    The satelite internet drains more money (with US GOV tax funds, no source) than it generates value outside of specific use cases. (partially thunderf00t)

    Another thing (i dont know if it is true) that tesla and spacex are doing better since elon is occupied with twitter

  • Little8Lost@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reddit isn't letting me delete my account, is it just me with this error message?
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    1 year ago

    it is better to change the comments to nonsense than to delete it:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/

    “: if you replace the content of your posts/comments with nonsense, you’ll make Reddit Inc. (including its CEO) lose money.”

    "There’s a good chance that those API price changes were motivated by large businesses using Reddit to train their large language models (LLMs) with. Stuff like GPT-3, Google’s BERT, Facebook’s Galactica, stuff like this. In other words, your content will be used to train bots. (It is, already.)

    Those models can be “poisoned” with random, machine generated nonsense. Poisoned data is worse than useless: it makes the model worse. So for each person replacing their Reddit content with nonsense, those businesses will be willing to pay Reddit Inc. less and less for API access."

    "Here is a mini-tutorial on how to do this. It’s for desktop users but you’ll likely be able to do the same from a phone browser.

    • Open Zompist’s gen. Take off the line saying “ki|či”, and click “Generate”. You’ll get some random babble like “Bepe topioi kabi brete i kropra”, copy it somewhere.
    • Open your Reddit profile and drag the button of Power Delete Suite to it.
    • [Optional] Check the box saying “prepare local backup of items”, if you want to save your content elsewhere.
    • Uncheck “remove comments”. You want to replace them with babble, not remove them.
    • [Optional] uncheck “remove posts”. It depends if you post mostly self posts or if you post links/pics. Use your reasoning.
    • Check “Edit comments / self posts”. It should open an input box for text; place the babble from Zompist’s gen there. Then click “process”.
    • Just wait!
    • [Optional] Click to download the backup of the items.

    If you don’t like Zompist’s gen and/or Power Delete Suite, you can use any generator and/or Reddit mass edition tool of your choice."

    and yes, i am somewhat still on reddit but i think i do more against them when my app does not work anymore (to spread lemmy or information) i will follow this process

  • Little8Lost@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.ml•Continuing to use Reddit (A thought)English
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    1 year ago

    i would join this kind of protest, main problem is that enough active people need to do this to make an effect and reach at least some people. If there are not enough participating than the comments can easily be skipped.
    Next problem is the add on. I guess it is not compartible with phones, at least the apps, next thing that if it gets installed the user dont have to care anymore.

    Likely a better approach is to make posts or directly comment in subreddits about similar or migrated communities here.

    For me the key feature would be that reddit does not get my data. That is actually a very good use case

    And i think the idea is creative and i feel bad for describing it as not that useful and but i may be wrong with my points.

    Maybe there are other ways to use add ons like adding behind the “main text” some rows to advertise similar communities on other platforms. But that could be skipped too by people.

    Please let me know when you have something i can participate and i will join when i am the next time online.