[–] 8 points 1 month ago

It would be possible but extremely difficult and expensive to launch even a single rack, and it’s not scalable beyond maybe 1% of existing compute capacity, and the entire thing is a giant grift with the only purpose to prevent Elon Musk from losing all his money.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Hmm. Well, you’re not wrong, they should not have put that on the home page.

    But also I don’t agree that trusting whatever is “written on the tin” is reasonable, especially if talking about security and privacy.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Meshcore is a toy project for nerds that like radios. Comparing it Whatsapp is setting an unjustifiably high standard. I don’t think any reasonable person would trust their private communications to Meshcore.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 3 months ago

    To be clear, this isn’t about reporting reviews to Google in general, which is possible in any country. This is specifically about the fast-tracked “defamation” process in Germany.

    And they are not removing this process, they are merely adding transparency.

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    As some of you may know, Germany has one of the shittiest “defamation” code that allows any business owner to simply delete the reviews they don’t like. For a long time this had made Google Maps ranking useless: a rating of 4.9 could mean the store is really good, or it’s deleting all the bad reviews.

    Not anymore.

    Now if you click through all the way to the Reviews tab, Maps will tell you how many reviews the business owner has deleted in the past year.

    So when choosing where to have lunch, don’t forget to check this tab. Also check the places you usually go: restaurants, stores, car mechanics. Chances are if they’re doing this you should look somewhere else.

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