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by jkoebler 2y ago
I wrote this article. The quote is in the headline because Instagram is calling it an error, I am not calling it an error. People have been wondering what happened and why, and have been posting on Reddit wondering why there’s no media atte
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iOS 17 Could Break Crucial Diabetic Glucose Monitor Alerts, Manufacturer Warns(404media.co)
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iFixit Drastically and Retroactively Reduces ‘Repairability Score’ of iPhone 14(404media.co)
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by jkoebler 3y ago
Naming the site was a big struggle sesh. Lots of good names are taken, weren't the right vibe, etc. We sort of made the joke "404 Media Company Not Found" to ourselves but, I think to be honest we: 1) Like how it sounds 2) Pe
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by jkoebler 3y ago
AI will be one of our core coverage areas and I'm sure we will be doing pieces both short and in-depth on AI alignment, doomerism, optimism, etc.
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by jkoebler 3y ago
This fully fully depends on the article. We want to respect our readers' time, so while we love doing big investigations, it's a lot to ask people to ONLY read 2,000-5,000-word articles about complicated topics. We want to have a
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by jkoebler 3y ago
We're going to join Mastodon I promise. Honestly the reason we haven't joined Mastodon yet is because there have been a million little things to adjust/fix in the days leading up to launch to make sure the site didn't br
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by jkoebler 3y ago
We actually saw that our name has confused this AI news site: https://twitter.com/ShortFormErnie/status/169403708675025348... So maybe the whole thing is a test for GAI and machine learning.
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by jkoebler 3y ago
We know that it has an audience because millions of people read our journalism at Motherboard every month. We are making a bet that a small fraction of those people will be willing to pay for accountability journalism and offbeat stuff that
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by jkoebler 3y ago
Thanks for reading! Lots more to come :)
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by jkoebler 3y ago
Hey there, Jason from 404 Media here. We're humbled that someone posted this and just wanted to say I'll stick around for an hour or so before I have a few interviews for articles scheduled, if anyone has any questions/though
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by jkoebler 7y ago
I'm the author of this article—both CTIA and CompTIA are lobbying against these bills, but CompTIA is the most actively outspoken. If you are a member of CompTIA or certified by them or have any thoughts about them please reach out to
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by jkoebler 8y ago
From the article (which I wrote, happy to answer questions) ... this is quoted in the court decision i.e., was written by a judge not by the defendant: "PCKompaniet does not pretend or market itself as Apple authorized and does not giv
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by jkoebler 9y ago
Hey—I wrote this article ... if anyone forks this and makes it real please let me know. @jason_koebler on twitter or jason.koebler@vice.com
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by jkoebler 10y ago
Scalpers join fan clubs and have people on the inside who can do name changes for them
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by jkoebler 10y ago
I was saying that artists and ticketmaster and politicians are happy to sell the narrative that "ticket bots and scalpers are the problem and we can't do anything about it" when that is very much not the case. Lots of fans bu
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by jkoebler 10y ago
I wrote this story and am happy to answer any questions you guys might have. Lots of information I ended up not using because the article was already incredibly long or I couldn't corroborate it (but believe it to be true from various
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by jkoebler 10y ago
Yep, I think this is the lesson we learned last week. The world doesn't end if any one of us drops.
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by jkoebler 10y ago
Yeah, we have three people in the UK, two in Canada, and a handful of remote freelancers / contractors. Slack is definitely useful for keeping in touch with them. The question is, how much constant communication do we actually need to
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by jkoebler 10y ago
Yeah, I think this is right (I'm on the Motherboard team), I'm the one who made the "silo" comment. I think Derek's point in the article about Slack making it easy to disguise structural / workflow problems is
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by jkoebler 10y ago
Hey, I'm the guy on the Motherboard team who said this. You make a fair point, but I think the main difference is that we're a team that publishes 20 or so stories every single day. That's 20 individual pieces of content that
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by jkoebler 10y ago
I see what you're saying—but companies regularly respond to things like this very quickly. At least to say "we're looking into it" or "can you give us some time to respond." Apple and every other major company
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by jkoebler 10y ago
I wrote this article, I gave Apple 18 hours to respond. The article has now been out for four hours or so, and it's been close to 24 hours since I originally asked them. Apple RARELY responds to press inquiries and the only time it has
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by jkoebler 11y ago
yes, thank you! Will look at this too
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by jkoebler 11y ago
It does! Will look into this. Thank you
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by jkoebler 11y ago
She's playing dumb, as are the FBI, the NSA, and everyone else. Clinton (and Obama) have many many advisers who DO know the issue and have explained it to them. She knows, in broad strokes, what's happening here, as does every maj
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by jkoebler 11y ago
I work at Motherboard, it's not advertising though reading it again it probably could have used a more skeptical tone at points. It's part of our Masters of Their Domain series, where we explore the history behind weird URLs. If y
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by jkoebler 11y ago
oh there's all sorts of things you can call people http://ieet.org/index.php/tpwiki/bioconservative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-progressivism
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by jkoebler 11y ago
Apple is not required to keep society's interests in mind, that is true. But we are allowed to alert our fellow citizens about the fact that the company at best doesn't care and at worst is obstructing what may be in our best inte
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by jkoebler 11y ago
Apple makes (or saves) at least $1 billion on repairing iPhones. They changed the interior design of the iPhone 6 vs the 5s to make it much more repairable. They are thinking about this

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