TBF having a quick response time to real-world fraud (as in, not because there is a bug in the code, but because users are lying to each other) is not an issue a developer would normally have to worry about. Seems like he simply got scapegoated on that one.

If I remember correctly, it was an issue with the code and not being able to detect/prevent fraudulent transactions.

I’ll have to go through the book(s) and check out the explanation again.

I think it is very bold of him to claim starting from zero would be slower. He has accrued so much hate that if he were to start one I can't see how it would turn out any different than truthsocial or if Biden started his own social media platform.

Although I do think it's doable if he somehow kept the fact that he is at the helm a trade secret as he gradually grew the userbase until reaching a certain critical mass and finally revealing that he's the owner.

I think the hate is mostly from media turning against him, which IIRC started to happen before the Twitter debacle. What has he done that normal people would care about enough to start hating him?

I would still expect some hate from the sort of people who (rightly) complain about Google Reader being turned down. But normal people don’t care about that sort of thing.

That will only happen when people can't do the things they normally could anymore on the browser. I was/am expecting it to happen with manifest v3, as I understood it it would break userscripts and make adblocking a pain, so far it hasn't happened so I still haven't bothered switching off Chrome.

Assuming this gets implemented, users might start being unable to access certain websites or services because their identity is deemed "insufficient", which would move them to use a different browser that does not have this.

My understanding was that manifest v3 implementation was delayed so I'd be surprised if it broken anything yet. It looked to me like the standard blow back management move where they see opposite boiling up so they announce a "delay" and try to sneak it in later when the heat has died down.

> Lots of networking equipment works over HTTP only, still.

MikroTik has supported https for a very very long time, though it comes disabled by default and even if it didn't it wouldn't work because it requires the user creating/importing a cert to use with it.

At least the cert manager is quite intricate and they have a video (assuming the device has a valid WAN IP) on how to set it up with letsencrypt.

Considering they did lay off 50% of their staff, your analysis was spot-on.

He's definitely feeling the pain right now, you can tell by how much more docile he's gotten in the last 48 hours.

From his recent tweets he has said exactly the opposite; that he will build a "council" of diversified opinions and cultures, or something of the sort.

Whatever that means or if it's ever actually happening though remains to be seen.

> This is the old "voters are actually stupid" idea. I don't buy it.

"Stupid" is probably the wrong word here. "Gullible" is probably more apt, considering they keep falling for these.

>it almost might incentivize politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements

They for sure would since there's a word for that: demagoguery.

Then those of us who hate "politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements" would down-rate them.

Yeah, but that does nothing on Reddit. Those "politician-style vacuous/feel-good statements" are already highly upvoted there.

> repeatedly annoying non-user visitors doesn't make them want to sign up?

It absolutely does, and that is precisely why they keep doing it. It doesn't work for the kinds of people that browse hackernews, but that's not their core audience anyway.

It's like saying ads don't work because you and me never click them because we use an adblock. Clearly they do work, and quite well...