And people still whinge about mansplaining not being a thing
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What's that?
It's a phenomenon where men assume they have superior knowledge to women, even if the woman their talking to is literally an expert in her field.
People will associate what you're saying with pretty much everything even if it doesn't make sense
Like how can one say that's mansplaining and not just a baseless thought? What guarantees that they only do this with women?
Why split hairs about what's going on rather than focusing on the fact that he talked down to a subject matter expert?
True. I'm sure plenty of mansplaining comes from blistful ignorance and unawareness, rather than outright misogynisticly driven malice, which is not a valid excuse to be an asshole.
This is almost as good as the jackass who tried to tell Margaret Atwood that "the woman who wrote that book was talking about Muslims, not Christians"
That sounds good. Got a link?
i remember them saying the app wont get certain featues, cause it just makes the whole thing less secure. even tho the dude only has the pattern recognition of a dead crow, i do have to add that no company should be trusted, BUT having an open source client is a good way to win me over. and as far as i can tell, the molly devs would purge the ai implementation crazy fuckin fast anyway.
To be fair, as soon as Signal chooses do to so, they can walk back any statement. Her words don't hold much value either...
I guess people forgot how Mozilla not that long ago simply went ahead and deleted mentions of 'never selling your data'
That's why I embraced xmpp. I liked what Signal is doing, but I don't believe any company, or anyone that owns one.
It's why a lot of you are here lol
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In all fairness, if a CEO doesn't introduce themself as a CEO, there's really no reasonable expectation for random internet strangers to know that.
I would have had no idea who that was.
I think key context is that the guy is representing himself as having special knowledge about what Signal is doing internally and what they'll do next.
It's not "you bump into some rando on the street. Don't you know she's CEO of Signal??"
It's "you're giving a Ted Talk about Signal. The woman in the front row offers a correction and you're like, 'shut up, dummy.'"
the guy is representing himself as having special knowledge about what Signal is doing internally and what they’ll do next.
I didn't get that impression- to me it just came off as him being cynical about platform enshittification.
Like, with recent news of Nexus being sold, my reaction was to join a chorus of others excplaiming that Nexus is about to be shit. We don't know that - we just know it's being sold. But we've all seen a ton of services follow a similar path, so the assumption feels justified. If a Nexus employee came out and said "Don't panic, literally nothing is going to change!" Whether that came from the janitor or CEO, I'd have a similar knee-jerk as the dude in the OP.
I also have no idea who the old or new CEO of Nexis is. If it happens to be a woman, me arguing with her wouldn't be from sexism, it'd be because Nexus is setting the stage to go down the toilet.
Dude in OP absolutely could just be a misogynistic prick, but there's certainly not enough info in the screencap to say so with any certainty.
In general perhaps, but he literally said
The engineers have already began laying out the ground work for such support.
This really makes it sound like he's pretending to know what he's talking about when he doesn't.
funny story, I insulted a Microsoft exec, to their face, because they introduced themselves as "working for Microsoft".
I told them in response, " Don't worry, I won't hold that against you." To which they asked, "What's that supposed to mean?" I said, "You work for them and don't even know? you certainly drank all the koolaide."
almost lost my job over that when my employer found out.
If I found out I was talking down to a Microsoft exec when I thought I was talking to a regular employee, I'd double down.
I would have told them to bring back Clippy 📎 as an AI companion, but inappropriately erotic. 👠
So...Cortana?
He replied to her post about how signal won't use AI and she said "we". He 100% assumed a woman was a nobody so he paid no attention. This is all on him.
https://bsky.app/profile/meredithmeredith.bsky.social/post/3lrqccvwnqs2z
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If the owner of signal commented in this thread I would have no idea lol
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