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The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates
  • Yep, that's textbook big tech strategy: -Build up the hype -Get the product out there, make sure as many orgs and people start using it as possible. Make it free or sell at loss if necessary -Oh yes, we broke a few laws for this. If we don't get a waiver, we'll have to close the service for everyone, do you realize the impact?

    That's Facebook on privacy, Uber on workers rights, etc. Now N+1th: OpenAI on copyright.

  • Family confirms death of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
  • To summarize: they had a happy life until a terrorist group took them during a massacre.

    Then they lived a short horrible life in the hands of their takers, while there is a war outside where one side claim to fight to liberate them without actually negociating their release and the other claims to use them as hostages while not really negociating their release either.

    And somewhat, they end up dead because let's be real: neither side gave a f*ck about them.

  • I got a new job. whatsapp group (20 people) is migrating to signal because I don't use it.
  • In these companies, does anyone check the licenses in details to make sure using them is ok for the company?

    Meta will get at least the metadata: meaning they will record who was in which call connecting from where.

    For example, if one member is visiting a client, Meta may be able to infer the relation between the 2 companies.

    If any of the people in the room click "report", then the discussion is sent for review without the encryption protection

    I'm pretty sure their user agreement translates to "you agree to let us do whatever the f*ck we want with the data you're purposely disclosing to us".

    And last but not least: if Meta decides to wipe the archives, any info get lost?

    There a reasons large companies ban unauthorized apps to talk about work.

  • The Best Encrypted Messengers in 2024
  • XMPP is so bad it was the baseline for Whatsapp. You know: that minor platform that feels like IRC and never took off. A lot of the techno around you are old stuff that evolved, "new" techno usually comes with new unexpected issues. Then they mature, get better and... old?

  • ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis?
  • Hollywood used to be concerned about climate change awareness, and we could hear superstars actors making poignant speeches about it.

    Then they figured that being serious about it meant stop flying private jets and helicopters, stop over consuming by building 4 mansions for themselves and collecting cars and what not, and it became a sensitive topic.

    Climate change is something most people are willing to fight for only if the solution is OTHERS will have to make changes.

  • Hungary facing fuel crisis as Ukraine turns up heat on Russian oil supplies
  • You wish. Orban controls all the media there now. You can be sure the narrative is "Ukraine is just punishing them unfairly for calling for a ceasefire and negociations" or anothe nice story that will make them look bad.

  • Pls someone make this reality
  • This is the wrong aporoach.

    You should build a mockup site, use it to raise 2M$ for the startup behind it you just created arguing you're about to collect personal data about the age, education level and place, curiosity, etc. with overinflated numbers on their real values.

    Then you hire a bench of students, or better: launch a competition for the best "fact you were told that turned out wrong" with a 1k$ prize that you eventually give to some biz angel's investrent adviser's child.

    Once data are acquired, claim the company is now worth 10M$ and raise that much in a new round.

    Finally, sell the company for 20M$ either to a tech company that will enshitify, paywall and crater it.

    You still don't have your website, but now you're rich and you no longer care about these things.

  • A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.
  • That's why you get "don't put living animals in the microwave oven" in the instructions.

    If Tesla didn't explicitely wrote "don't put your f***ing finger in the way on purpose after multiple attempts to close it!" he may have a chance.

    He will plead a trauma from the loss of trust in his beloved car brand and the credibility damage on his Youtube channel and ask for M$.

  • Elon Musk hosted an ‘anti-Biden’ dinner party. Here’s who attended
  • Unfortunately, you need to add this about all of us supporting them: "buying the cheapest product over buying the fairest produced", therefore comforting them exploiting labor to reduce the cost is what we collectively want.

  • Sorry commies, capitalists beat you to landlord hate!
  • Make sense. In its inception, capitalism was putting work as the source of value creation. Rental is about asking money while nothing is produced.

    The message is all confusing today because the people talking about the value of hard work are actually the ones who want to get huge returns from investment while paying as little as possible for the work done. Their end goal is to avoid working themeselves. Smith would despise them just the same.

  • Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay
  • They're not "defeated". They got exactly what they wanted. People leaving without having to lay them off through attrition.

    Now that they think they have "right-sized" their workforce at no cost, they nicely offer to concede hybrid working to keep the rest of their employees.

  • Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers
  • Alternative answer: "We understand your issue and will fix it as time and priorities allow. Please note that customers paying for support always get higher priority. Given MS contributions to the project, this ticket was ranked 42nd in our priority list.

    Have a pleasant day! FFMPEG support team"

  • Still Unable to Post Bond, Trump Has Most Crazed Meltdown Yet
  • Was he not describing his fundraising as donations so far? You donate money you don't think you need at all. But you should be able to lend money you don't need in the near future. I would bet some of his "loyal" supporters would start to doubt if they were asked to lend too much of what they own.

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