tosc's comments

Right, but there is an exception for carriers such as Twitter from being treated as publishers, responsible for the material they distribute and monetize from their website.

They aren’t treated like press, but they need to be.

> theres a good chance they’ll screw something up like the waterproofing seal or leave a loose connection that you won't notice until weeks later

You must be strongly opposed to right to repair, since repair shops are incompetent to even replace a battery in your view.

> Repairability is orthogonal to reliability

This is clearly not true when we’re discussing user replaceable batteries or the like. It’s a trade off, like most things in engineering.

There are many extra ways things can go wrong by making components such as batteries easy to replace. Poor contacts, oxidation, mechanical breakage, battery compartment doors popping off, ingress of dust and fluids, looser tolerances for the batteries etc.

Nobody discussing this in good faith can deny that these issues exist.

> My interests as a consumer and those of "people who make money out of repair" are almost completely aligned

I don’t see how. The less reliable the device is, the more business they get. The more reliable the device is, the less you spend on repairs. Sure seems like opposing interests.

We shouldn’t legislate repairability at the expense of reliability. The only people that benefits are repair shops.

That should be up to the user to choose, as it is now.

Yeah - it’s fairly obvious that linked article is in bad faith.

The 79-pound repair kit is what Apple uses in its stores to avoid damaging phones that remain under warranty.

If people want to buy a bunch of cheap tools and risk damaging a delicate phone, they shouldn’t expect Apple’s help.

It seems like weird logic to legislate that Apple and Samsung must make their phones less reliable for everyone simply because a 5 year old phone made by a cut price manufacturer is no longer supported.

Why did you buy the ASUS phone if you don’t expect to get support for it?

Just because people who make money out of repair are making this claim, doesn’t make it true.

See for example: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apples-self-service-r...

You don’t have to buy a new phone to replace the battery. Just take it to any repair shop.

This is just wrong. Replaceable batteries add cost and fragility to the device, make battery life worse, and most phones die because they stop getting software updates anyway.

Replaceable batteries will increase e-waste because there will be a lot more broken phones.

Why not just stop using Twitter? Who cares whether the FBI has its thumb on the scales or if it’s Elon Musk and his friends?

“The world’s digital town square” is a marketing slogan, and nothing more. If you instead accept that is simply just another way to sell eyeballs to advertisers, it’s easier to understand.

If we do need a digital town square, someone needs to build one. If it needs to have free speech protections, then the government needs to run it because they are the only ones who are restrained by the 2nd amendment.

Who said anything about doing nothing? Why not just accept that there’s been a Cold War going on all along and we’ve just been pretending otherwise.

Ok, this is fine, but that means we have to classify Twitter as press, with all of the responsibilities as a publisher that this entails.

So every troll and bot farm should be able to have each tweet judged by a jury?

Man that is so horrible. Not all places are like that. Unfortunately it tends to be smaller places that are more trustworthy. I suggest that at very least you may need a good immigration attorney.

There is no ‘finished’. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

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How did you replicate dang? Was there enough history to train a large language model?

> The official narative is: China bad, America good.

This isn’t accurate. The official narrative is that America’s way of life is under threat from China. This is just true. China would say the same thing, and that would be true too.

There is an assumption that most US citizens prefer America to China, also true. Can we assume that most Chinese nationals prefer China to America? Presumably.

> I described what is supposed to happen,

Not very relevant to those for whom it doesn’t.

> and what happens most of the time.

This blithely elides the possibility that it’s not random who it happens for and who it doesn’t.

Have you considered that there are those for whom it happens most of the time, and those for whom it doesn’t.

> He would have been arrested then released on bail and made the next flight. They would both be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Why do you assume this?