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Out of curiosity, what part of the driving AI of tesla would you say is currently not lining up with ethical standards?

The fact that they cannot disambiguate between a white truck and the sky color that killed an innocent driver is a starting point.

I realize the drivers probably should be paying attention etc: but when Tesla falsely advertises (or worse by the toddler antics of Elon, portrays the optics of L5 automation); and drivers believe such advertisements then of course they wouldn't know that the car is much worse than promised.

I feel like the projects that rely on bootstrap are ones that have a larger IE audience.

I hate supporting IE, but that has always been the appeal of bootstrap for me.

You can remain using older versions then.

But they can't really stay relevant and keep supporting IE.

Why? Their plan for bootstrap v5 at the moment is just some cleanup to fix mistakes they made and remove the jquery dependency. I dont see the reason for these goals to not support ie11.

As much as i hate ie11 we have to still support it as its used in many businesses using our softwares

I think it makes sense to formally drop the IE dependency in versions sooner than when you’re making changes that actually break IE.

Besides, replacing jquery May indeed be why they chose to drop IE right now. One of the biggest selling points of jquery, and one of the biggest contributors to its heaviness, is cross browser support including IE.

As one of the comments in the linked issue points out, dropping IE11 means they can also start using basic JS constructs, like Array.prototype.forEach.

> As one of the comments in the linked issue points out, dropping IE11 means they can also start using basic JS constructs, like Array.prototype.forEach.

Array.prototype.forEach is supported from IE9.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

EDIT: It is the nodelist api that isn't supported in IE. Not Array.prototype.forEach.

Quite a lot of these basic JS constructs even if they are missing (most aren't in IE11) are very easily polyfilled.

Personally I think it is fine that they drop support if they don't feel the need to support it. Bootstrap 4 isn't going to vanish.

And if you can polyfill, that is good way to drop support for ie11. Personally instead of support ie11 out of the box, have have create custom build or expect them to do polyfilling themselves. This way they can optimize for the remaining browsers.

Knowingly being locked into an older version of a technology is bad omen, e.g., security. Granted, it is bootstrap, and we're talking about IE 11. But some XSS issue might pop up that doesn't get patched in pre-Bootstrap v5.

And with time, your product that's built on Bootstrap v4 (or earlier) is only going to continue decaying.

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What would need to happen is that all of "my" friends would have to start using another service.

This is what I am struggling with after quitting WhatsApp 2 weeks ago. No one joined Matrix or even Telegram and the only people I can message now are the ones using an iOS device because of iMessage. Not even SMS - no one sends or replies to one.

Honestly that's on them if you send them an SMS and they don't reply.

Dan has been so cordial in every interaction I've seen with him. He can be more conscientious than many devs, so I'm sure it is a talent that the React team likes to showcase.

Are they really only taking this stand because Amazon is looking to get a government contract for its Rekognition software, and Microsoft is trying to deter that?

I don't think it's SPECIFICALLY the rekognition contract, but that is the broad stroke. Microsoft has a strong ethics review process for all things AI, and routinely turns down fat projects because they don't pass ethical muster. The contracts that rekognition is designed to bid for, are largely in the grey zone where MS would turn a lot of things down. Government regulation would help lower the cost of Microsoft's ethics policy.

Fernando Diaz, for one, has mentioned passing up projects. Principal on the MSFT AI Ethics group (FATE)

I didn't find anything on Microsoft turning down projects due to ethical issues.

However, I found a podcast with Fernando Diaz talking about the ethical problems of using AI and experimenting with users without their knowledge, which is commendable.

Most likely. You'll rarely see a corporation encourage the government to do anything unless it helps them or hurts their competition.