They could name it Kennedy syndrome or something like that.
jonne
joined 1 year ago
Tesla not properly planning the rollout of a new feature? Well I never!
The issue is really with the business model of most IOT device makers. They sell you one device once and they're basically committing themselves to running cloud services for that device indefinitely. This only works while you're growing, and when sales start to plateau you're suddenly paying huge amounts of money to maintain the infrastructure with no money coming in.
Companies like Google, Apple and Amazon are big enough to absorb that, but the smaller ones will quickly start looking at ads and subscription fees.
It would be a lot better if device makers could just stick to building the hardware, after which the user just plugs it into their IOT provider of choice (which would be a subscription or something self hosted like Home Assistant).
I don't think you understood their point: this shit is done by police everywhere, and nobody's asking for consent there either. A lot of this tech gets developed by Israel and then bought by police forces across the world. Palestinians are guinea pigs for all the latest policing and surveillance tech.
It's got gills.
Huge innovation by Stephen Elop.
Thing is, if a patent applies to Reddit, there's a chance it applies to Lemmy or other boards as well. Unless it's very specific to Reddit alone, this is probably not a good thing.
Probably got bought by a private equity firm trying to squeeze the last bits of profit out of it before offloading it to some sucker. I'm sure that one year they jacked up rent looked really good on paper until those shops had taken the time to figure out their next move.
Yeah, you could keep some of the mall stuff and have at least a supermarket there, but people would still need stuff that a mall typically won't offer, and people need to get to their jobs as well, unless they all happen to work at that mall.
Most malls are in very inconvenient locations if you don't have a car, tho. Unless you plan on providing every conceivable service right there and/or add reliable public transport links, it's probably not the way to go.
You'd basically be building a bunch of apartment blocks near a highway interchange.
They dropped that one quietly a couple of years ago. I guess around the time they started doing contracts for Israel?
Edit: just Googled what this project nimbus is all about, and it sounds like basically building data centres in Israel, which is fair enough, but it ends with this titbit:
That's not something you put in your contract unless you're planning on doing something that'll attract boycotts